Word: shames
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Naylor's straightforward tone defies the usual gimmickry to which the subjects she treats so readily lend themselves: out-of-wed-lock pregnancy, parental shame and a runaway's difficulties, single women just a step ahead of poverty, abandoned wife-mothers, young Blacks struggling through militancy in search of dignity, the stereotypical welfare case, homosexuality in mainstream society. But out of this parade of social issues come the same personal interactions with which everyone is too familiar. The women's particular situations are merely a fog obscuring people who, Naylor convinces the reader, are at bottom typical. Fleshed out, these...
...respect for Peter Sellers. This is actually a surprisingly common criticism, and it's usually followed by: "He would've wanted it that way." But who knows what Peter Sellers would've wanted? The point is, the guy was a comic genius. It would have been a crying shame to waste the 45 minutes of hysterical new material that Sellers taped before his death--or, for that matter, the nuggets of previously unused sequences that compose the film's second half...
...help us preserve our sense of humor." Not, alas, when we are invited to genuflect at the coffin. Better to recall the lively Sellers-Clouseau: facing every indignity with stoic fatuity, bulldogging through the minefield of his own ineptitude, working new variations on that preposterous French accent. What a shame we will never hear him say, "Eh Teh, pheune heume...
...idea of the student-athlete should have its limits, the veteran sportscaster said. "It would be a shame to expect a Billy Simms to be like a Harvard student." Musberger explained, saying that football players have something to offer the country's culture and should be given the training provided by the college game without being expected to become scholars...
...ended last year in permission to build the monument, the proposed design came under fire. When the structure envisioned by first-year Graduate School of Design student Maya Y. Lin was finally completed, some argued that the understand black marble was not "heroic" enough and perpetuated the post-war shame of the veterans, so designers agreed to add the traditional large bronze figure of three soldiers and a flag. Then another group raised objections to the victory-V shape of the monument, which to some underlined the ambiguity...