Word: shame
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Everyone knows there isn't much consolation in winning third place, but the Eagles and Huskies will fight it out nevertheless, playing not so much for fame but for less shame...
...What a shame that they should even be able to speak about these virtues. They should have looked around and beheld their own Square. What courage does it take for Cambridge to proclaim itself a "Nuclear-Free Zone," yet lot pollution choke its residents? What bravery does it take to stand for "animal rights," while a motley mass of humanity sleeps sprawled out on the sidewalks? To these questions, Li and I have only one answer: "Clear the Square...
Beneath its polished surface, this novel of love, taste and manners is a profound tale of shame and self-destruction. Begley is a fine technician who employs proven devices: the narrator who feeds gossip to readers as if they were old lunch companions; the private letters and journal entries that reveal the hidden flaws in an outwardly flawless character...
...Cinema: Fifty Years of Black Cast Posters by John Kisch and Edward Mapp. This book is a glossy compilation of hundreds of posters used in promoting independent race movies and Hollywood features with an important African-American presence. Spike Lee offers an inconsequential preface that is thoroughly put to shame by the excellent introduction by Donald Bogle...
...shame that the illogic of the system encourages me to put on my barong, parade around in it and pretend it's been important in my life...