Word: shaming
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...lamppost and croon. "I wanted to make something naturalistic," says John Carney, who wrote and directed Once after a stint as The Frames' bass player, in part because he thinks his 16-year-old niece's generation has dismissed the movie musical genre as uncool. "It's a shame people are missing out," Carney says. He's onto something - Once won the audience award at the Sundance Film Festival this year, and it has tough-to-charm critics swooning...
...composed during breaks from writing the novel. One tale, Monday Morning, is about a family of asylum seekers fleeing atrocities at home for a new life in London; another is about a young man escaping to the U.S. from London; a third explores the feelings of repulsion and shame a man feels on a trip "home" to Nigeria. The stories are almost unremittingly dark. When the father in Monday Morning injures himself escaping immigration officials on a building site, his wife, maimed in the violence she has fled, "petted him with her club, her smooth...
...College and HSA thinking in rehiring Collegeboxes? The only possible answer we can come up with is that they are resting their hopes on the George W. Bush philosophy of bungling: “There’s an old saying… that says, fool me once, shame on—shame on you. Fool me—you can’t get fooled again...
...However, amidst the explosion that occurred over e-mail lists pertaining to the efficacy of the hunger strike, I realized just how polarizing the entire endeavor has become. And that’s a shame, because it didn’t have to go this...
...Canadians regard government grants to arts institutions and artists as essential for protecting and nurturing Canadian culture in the midst of a constant flood of American influence. "I hope this is sort of a wake-up call to him," Martel told TIME. "If it instills a certain sense of shame because he hasn't read enough, so be it. If he wakes up and enjoys some of the books that I've sent him, wonderful! I'll encourage him in that...