Word: shamed
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...shame that Friedan clouded a very powerful--though common--argument against the judge's decision in silly feminist propaganda. What's sperm got to do with it? A whole lot, if my high school health teacher was right. But let's let Friedan get her misanthropic digs in. What's interesting is that this radical chic is arguing such a conservative position. So conservative in fact, that it's one she shares with the Catholic Church...
...latest foreign observer to peer into the void is Salman Rushdie, author of two fantastical novels, Midnight's Children and Shame, that tell the recent history of India and Pakistan. As an Indian who grew up with his independent motherland in its infancy, and as a fabulist whose bravura acts of invention bring to mind the "magic realism" of Latin American fiction, Rushdie felt himself obscurely allied with the revolutionary government in Nicaragua. Last summer he accepted the invitation of the Sandinista leadership to inspect the seven-year-old revolution. For three weeks he attended rallies, journeyed to the Honduran...
...when it comes to profits, the most successful independent movies would put many major-studio pictures to shame. Platoon, which cost $6 million, has grossed $93 million so far, while the $3.5 million A Room with a View is expected to bring in more than $50 million worldwide. Even so, independent productions remain highly risky investments, since fully half of such films never find distributors willing to handle them...
...have accounted for 60% of the country's export earnings. Already hard hit by falling prices of crude oil, in the wake of the earthquakes Ecuador suspended all payments on its $8.2 billion foreign debt for the rest of this year. Febres Cordero said he took the action "without shame...
...York jury of federal racketeering charges brought against him nearly two years ago by federal prosecutors. As the jury foreman called out not-guilty findings for Gotti and six co-defendants, including Gotti's brother Gene, the triumphant Gotti jumped up, pointed to the prosecution table and said, "Shame on them! I'd like to see a verdict on them." Added his lawyer Bruce Cutler: "This is a powerful verdict...