Word: selfishness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...attended with some of his female friends. Inevitably the discussion turned to relationships and the male gender. After one woman turned to him and said, "The problem is that all men are assholes," it dawned on him that he was tired of explaining why men were not "assholes, slobs, selfish or insensitive." He began to make a joke out of the situation. Seeing the women laugh, it occurred to him that the best way that he could explain the differences between the sexes was to turn them into comedy. He insists that "when people laugh, they take themselves and their...
Jennifer Jason Leigh is perfectly cast in Agnieszka Holland's adaptation of Henry James's novel. An awkward young woman starved for affection is caught between a cynical, distant father and a spirited but selfish young suitor. Holland's camera work and sense of period is engaging throughout, and her trademark comic acuity leavens the somber arc of the story. Eventually, though, Leigh asserts herself just long enough to break your heart. Like its heroine, the film misses true magnificence, but its intelligent cast and sensitive storytelling are more than enough to recommend...
...self-indulgence of the "Me Decade" were at their peak. The movie's pivotal sequence, a New Year's party celebrating the arrival of 1980, climaxes when one tortured porn groupie executes his wandering wife before blowing his brains out at the stroke of midnight. During the 1980s, selfish gratification takes on a colder, nastier edge, and the consequences finally came home to roost. Boogie Nights sends its characters into a spiral of degeneration. As each character faces the ramifications of their depraved life, the porn industry turns to kink and violence in order to keep up with the changing...
...index cards. On an unofficial Martha Website, they exchange information and offer to buy back issues at twice the newsstand price. And they declare their allegiance in open messages: "When she smiles, all is peace in the world," writes one. "Whoever says she's a conniving, evil, nasty, selfish materialistic witch is really, like me, envious, frustrated, totally enamored...
Representatives can do nothing more than to "try our best." Claims otherwise should raise our suspicion: either the claimant comes armed with an unyielding selfish agenda, or is a simpleton unable to see beyond his or her own lot in life. Both are self-important and have no place in public service...