Word: shaming
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...incarnation avoids Powerpuff’s sugar-and-spice conceit in favor of a complex plot involving Martians, killer macadamia nuts and pharmaceutical corporations. The film borrows copiously from a range of niche genres—action, romance, western and sci-fi, among others. It’s a shame that it isn’t a musical, too (“Bebop” is the name of the film’s spaceship), considering that it’s been decades since Paint Your Wagon wiped out the potentially entertaining future of the song-and-dance western...
Likewise, in occupation-era France, citizens, such as those in the Lorrainian town of Jarny, went to great lengths to remove and hide stained-glass windows from their churches. Proud as this legacy makes them, it should also be a source of shame, for while France hid its stained glass from the Nazis, it gave up tens of thousands of its Jews...
...these examples, it would have been better if the people and the art had been protected. But that wasn’t the case, and that is a shame. But even worse, the prominent wails over art from so many refined people demean the true victims, both Iraqi and American...
...Arab psyche took a direct hit last week when American forces toppled Saddam's regime. Not since Israel's devastating defeat of its Arab neighbors in the 1967 Six-Day War has military action left the Middle East in such a state of alternating shock, shame, denial and depression. Crazy rumors, wishful thinking and conspiracy theories--Saddam and his sons committed suicide in a secret bunker so the West would never know if they were dead or alive--are running rampant. If Washington hoped the initial scenes of Iraqi jubilation over Saddam's fall would ameliorate Arab antipathy toward...
...that their "very public criticism of President Bush at this important--and sensitive--time in our nation's history ... could put our troops in even more danger." Robbins shot back in his own letter, "You belong with the cowards and ideologues in a hall of infamy and shame." Well, the Hall of Fame could always settle for Kevin Costner. He's a Republican, and he's probably free that night...