Word: spouts
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Allen always manages to avoid carboard characters - even when they actually are one note jokes. Mira Sorvino in Mighty Aphrodite, Jennifer Tilly in Bullets Over Broadway, and now Elaine May as Frenchy's cousin in Small Time Crooks - the bumbling, doltish female in these films does little more than spout inane observations, but they manage to be endearing, sympathetic, _almost_ knowable. In this case, the comedy is more obvious, but all of Woody's characters in Small Time Crooks are lovable even when they're pathetic, even when they're predictable...
When Strawberry appeared at training camp after failing the test, he said that he did not want to hide from anything. It is about time that he stop hiding from his responsibilities and the consequences of his actions. Major League Baseball has dealt decisively with players who gamble or spout racist rhetoric. It is now time to send a message that baseball does not tolerate the use of drugs either...
...testing ground for theories of social justice. When it comes to war and peace, we do not have the luxury of running controls or tweaking variables ad infinitum; if the experiment fails, men and women die. In this regard, the callous disregard for national security evinced by those who spout entitlement talk is contemptible. At the same time, the exclusive emphasis of many conservatives on unit cohesion and effectiveness is more than slightly disquieting. Developed to its logical extreme, it can lead to--indeed has led to--truly totalitarian lengths...
...guard. He doesn't look up. But security guard #2 doesn't remember us from an hour before. We tell him to ask Gigi. We know Gigi will recognize us. Gigi frustratedly looks us up and down, and says she's never seen us before in her life. We spout off some jargon and names and one rings a bell somewhere. She lets us back in. I am happy to return to my seat on the big purple plushy couchy thing. Enter Kelly, Miss TRL herself...