Word: shamings
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...since spawned a trail of newspaper ink and YouTube videos, the most recent centering on a paternity dispute involving her child. The results of a paternity test were due to be revealed yesterday, but instead left a frenzied media on tenterhooks until next week. It’s a shame she isn’t around to enjoy the mania, since meaningless fame was her raison d’être, but this foul death has given her life meaning as a farcical parable of ugly modern life...
...This seems like a shame to me. I very much enjoy the company of men and am more than a bit bothered to think it is acceptable to talk about them in crude language. Certainly if any man were ever caught talking about a woman in these sorts of terms, he’d be slapped across the face many times over. This sort of talk is disrespectful to good men everywhere—husbands, friends, and fathers. It’s disrespectful to our future sons...
...this looking back? No doubt, Mak's obsession with recollection is enhanced by another war raging in the Balkans in the late 1990s - a sharp retort to anyone who contends that Europe had put brutality and tribalism behind it. It was Dutch peacekeepers, after all, on whom fell the shame of Srebrenica, when they failed to prevent the massacre of 8,000 Bosnians at a U.N. safe area...
...didn't go highbrow. He gave her a patter number with these lyrics - "I can't stop talkinaboutim antalkinaboutim antalkinaboutim, I can't stop talkinabout the man that I adore" - as Astaire stands by in understated disbelief. The singer and the songwriter never worked together again, which is a shame, since Hutton might have inspired a snazzy Broadway score from Loesser and kept her own career in flourish. In a way they did duet once more, once removed. Hutton's last hit record was a cover of "A Bushel and a Peck" from Guys and Dolls. It went...
...pregnancy is a bona fide human life. They are also exploiting popular resentment against the Latin American Church's ardent opposition to contraception and other safeguards that could help avoid the need for abortions. Feminists say one reason so many women abort in Chile, for example, is the social shame the Church there tends to heap on unmarried pregnant females...