Word: sickingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Since Kirby Dick's Sick: The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist displays all of its subject's creative carpentry skills, it is not for the faint of stomach. (When the song The Hammer of Love starts playing, go out for popcorn.) But like the 1994 Crumb, this deadpan documentary transcends its sensational topic. Flanagan's artful self-mutilation, and especially his corrosively comic descriptions of it, amounted to a heroic decision to take the punishment that God or nature meted out to him into his own hands...
...step in the right direction," said Carol S. Choi '01. "Next they need strawberries and watermelons. I'm sick of apples and oranges...
...number of students are happy with these rankings," he says. "They would prefer me to rank the struggles of the destitute sick over problems of students. They respect that...
...reinstate the death penalty has been spurred by recent local killings, most prominently the murder and rape of Jeffrey Curley, the Cambridge 10-year-old kidnapped by two men and dumped in a plastic container in a Maine river. Curley's killing was brutal and horrific, its perpetrators sick. But killing them will do no good. When the anger over such crimes abates, we are left with a dual challenge: preventing such crimes from happening again and dealing with the sad people who caused so much pain. The fallacy is that these two challenges must be handled...
There has been no conclusive evidence that the death penalty deters crime. And why would it? The criminals society hopes to target are irrational and sick. Consequences, punishments, death versus life in prison without parole--these calculations are likely not made in the minds of the ill and the evil...