Word: shamelessness
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...result, the Bruins were trying to "get" Ron Hextall, a shameless exercise which resulted in a couple of interference minors, but nothing else. For all the times the Bruins were violating Hextall's goal crease, it was surprising that the Flyers didn't try to "goon" Doug Keens according to the ancient reciprocal code...
...maybe this teaching is wrong. Maybe it's shame that's natural, not shamelessness. The modern effort to free man from shame would then be an effort to make him something other than what nature had intended. Sexual disease could then be said to be nature's scourge against shameless sexual promiscuity. But liberal orthodoxy prevents me from saying such a thing...
...Stone has devised a drama of palpable realism that is also a metaphor for the uncivil war that raged in the U.S. and can flare up anytime in any family. Indeed, at the film's molten core is the tug of wills between two strong men, outsize figures of shameless strutting charisma, for parentage of their platoon and for their new recruit, Chris. Barnes, the staff sergeant, could be Chris' legal father; Elias, the romantic renegade, could be a spiritual father, even after his death. They are like Claudius and the Ghost wrestling for Hamlet's allegiance...
...like shrapnel -- about Reagan's forgetfulness, loose use of facts, light working schedule ("from 9 to 12, from Monday clear to Wednesday") and reliance on pop-culture symbolism ("an idyllic land of tax breaks and lots of big-grossing summer movies"). The title number depicts Reagan as a shameless manipulator of images in defiance of content: he seeks black support for his policies toward South Africa by chanting in the style of rap music and attempting an arthritic version of Michael Jackson's moon walk...
...Tides provides plenty of both. There is the time Grandma tried out a coffin at the local funeral home and nearly frightened Ruby Blankenship to death. There is Grandpa, who can water-ski 40 miles and carries a 90-lb. cross through town every Good Friday. Conroy can be shameless in his extravagances of language and plot, yet he consistently conveys two fundamental emotions: the attachment to place and the passion for blood ties...