Word: shame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This movie asks the question: "Why do you suppose we pick the people we pick to love?" A character actually comes out and says that-rhetorically, to be sure, but without shame. As the question hangs in the air, like a cartoon balloon chiseled out of concrete, it raises another, more interesting point: Why do people make movies that ask questions like this...
...Harvard allows its students to excel in a variety of areas and it would be a shame if our athletes could not compete on a national level," Watson said yesterday...
...Internal Security Committee and its predecessor lived in shame and died in shame; it is good to see it dead and buried...
...RESISTANCE TO THE JUNTA: I did as much as I could. You burn yourself out after that, and who is going to listen? The last seven years [of military rule] was a dark period of shame and a crime which should never, ever have happened...
...anger of Bet She'an, and of all Israel, was mingled with shame and horror, particularly following the discovery that one of the four bodies burned was that of an Israeli victim of the raid, a Moroccan Jew who had immigrated to Israel a decade ago. At the graveside ceremony, Israel's chief rabbi, Shlomo Goren, declared with suppressed emotion that the desecration of bodies, even those of Israel's enemies, was prohibited by religious laws. Some clearly agree with Truck Driver Zada David Cohen, who said sadly, "Now everybody will think Israel is barbarian...