Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...used to it, congressmen: on the Web, free speech isn't a dirty word, and dirty words are free speech. When some members of the House Judiciary Committee -? yes, that House Judiciary Committee -? got together Wednesday for a subcommittee hearing, they were supposed to talk about cybersquatting-for-profit and other online intellectual-property tangles. But true to form, the distinguished boys and girls who spent most of last year arguing about oral sex couldn?t keep their minds out of the gutter, and most of the day was spent debating a new web phenomenon: dirty domain names...
...mother who had the true genius for grace and had taught him what he needed to know. And the one thing his mother would have told him, he said with a sad look on his face, was that it would be shameless for him to give such a speech about either her or his father the President...
While Gore's trip here was part of an official vice-presidential visit, the presidential hopeful's speech made it the event seem much like a stop on the campaign trail...
While Gore's trip here was part of an official vice-presidential visit, the presidential hopeful's speech made it the event seem much like a stop on the campaign trail...
...Kidman tries to chew the scenery and ends up choking bigtime. Her monologue should be the key to the movie--a thorough exploration of how unrealized emotions can inspire the most potent jealousy--and yet Kubrick has Alice on marijuana before she begins her speech. Why? Why cheapen the moment? In Schnitzler's novel, Alice is perfectly lucid; she virtually relives her erotic desires for the sailor as she recounts her lust. In the film, the exchange isn't balanced; Alice isn't rational, the emotions are cheapened, and the scene flops. Bill retaliates by diving into an underworld...