Word: shamings
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...honestly believe, though I have tried to, that this has been the case for the past eight years. It seems that George W. Bush never really got it. It was all just a photo op: "Hey, look where I am, Dad!" It is a shame that so many people had to die because of such childlike whims and lack of caring. I was born in the South, and I have seen a lot of ignorance and intolerance. I now live in Northern California, so I have seen both sides of the coin as far as American culture and attitudes...
...Even so, 30 demonstrators stood outside of the King's College heat this week chanting "Shame, shame, shame on King's, women are not sex things." At other events, banners and placards were even more biting: "SOAS is here for our education, not your ejaculation...
...heated sexual relationship, which, in due course, she abruptly breaks off. Some years later, as a law student, he visits a courtroom where he finds her on trial as a war criminal, which shocks him beyond measure. He also - quite belatedly - discovers that she is illiterate and that her shame at that condition probably, in some way that is not clear to us (or her), contributed to her wartime depredations against Jewish women she was transporting on a death march. Still later (and now played by Ralph Fiennes), Michael supplies her with the books she painfully learns to read during...
...really is a shame and, quite frankly, not very much in the holiday spirit...
...Fisher's struggle with addiction and manic depression. Wishful Drinking is her attempt to gather up a lifetime of memories scattered by electroshock therapy. At one point, she describes being admitted to a locked ward during a psychotic episode. She signed her commitment papers with a single word: shame. It's one of the few paragraphs in Wishful Drinking that doesn't contain a punch line; only when she writes about her brushes with madness does Fisher drop her manic stand-up shtick and let us see, for a moment, what it's there to cover up. Ironically...