Word: shame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sandwiches and capped cokes in bags. And what do you do with these brand new bags? Do you at least use them for garbage, thus preventing its spread? No. you don't. You just crumple them and pile them onto the already huge heap of garbage we have. Oh. shame shame on you-all. Frequent the Dunster Grill instead. In Dunster, we serve only on special, biodegradable plates...
Before long the outcry against Gladstone's "bad taste" was loud enough to force him to withdraw his modest proposal. Which may be a shame. As things go in local and state government, Gladstone's sex tax is not only original, but, with proper promotion, might have become more productive than lotteries...
Most American film critics, it seems, find it difficult to empathize with American filmmakers. Perhaps the great sense of shame critics express when American talent begins to fade comes from the fact that artists, in a romantic critical view, are not supposed to act like "normal people"; thus, when Huston cashes in on his name, he is accused of "selling out" to commercial enterprise. It is something we tolerate-nay, inculcate in our society, even while recognizing its basic immorality. A figure who enjoys making films and making money equally well is an easy target for guilt-ridden liberals...
...promised entering foreign firms a ten-year tax holiday, and signed away oil exploitation rights for over half the land in the country. The oil law was presented to his new congress to ratify written in English. Bauer Paiz told me that some deputy with a trace of shame suggested that it first be translated into Spanish...
...forgiveness worked far better than U.S. prison terms, some of them as incredibly long as 500 or even 1,500 years. For many U.S. offenders, especially first-timers, the mere shame of arrest and conviction is quite enough to prevent repetition...