Word: sinned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Grey calls those who treat Wood with benign contempt "jackals of bourgeois sensibility." And he's right. As critic Jim Morton notes, "If there is a 'worst film ever made,' it is one that is boring -- a sin Ed Wood Jr. is rarely guilty of." But there is a more melancholy irony to be found in Grey's interviews with the director's colleagues. Unlike most trashmeisters, Wood had radical messages for his audience: about sexual tolerance (Glen or Glenda), nuclear madness (Plan 9), parental smugness (The Sinister Urge). He was as dedicated to filmmaking as Welles or Kurosawa...
ACCORDING TO THE AMERICAN capitalist gospel, it is no sin to go belly up. Quite to the contrary, U.S. firms enjoy the most liberal bankruptcy laws on earth -- a privilege strengthened by a provision of the code known as Chapter 11 that holds creditors at bay while often allowing sick firms to bleed new buckets of red ink and still operate for years...
Paglinauan is in her first year n the varsity after playing with the JV for three years. Three year sin the bleachers cheering for her classmates...
...reforms and is made human by the play which he directs. Gutmann is not convincing as the man who used to kiss the portrait of his wife a thousand times before he went to bed, and declared: "I'm not a convict. I don't sin"--nor is he as the man who has an adulterous affair with a pretty convict...
These signs of assertiveness are the more unsettling because they represent such a departure from Germany's postwar behavior. For four decades its foreign policy has been one of self-effacing followership, never leadership. To Germans, the worst political sin was Alleingang, going it alone. Boastfulness was bad, even when such accomplishments as the postwar economic miracle justified a certain degree of pride; any reference to success was routinely followed by a word of gratitude to the Western Allies and a word of apology for the Nazi past...