Word: standing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...raised holy hell with me," Dow said. "He kept calling me on the telephone, writing letters, always.... After about six weeks of bombardment, I told him I'd do it. I couldn't stand the pressure...
There comes a point when, for health reasons, one has to cease getting furious at Hollywood for mangling great novels and instead allow a movie version to stand on its own. This season's Austen fare, "Emma," adapted and directed by Douglas McGrath, borrows the book's social satire, but unwisely replaces its canny ironic bite with what in comparison resembles absurd slapstick. We can enjoy the product of this limited adaptation--funny, outrageously decorated--but it's anything but great Austen...
...glimpse of the stars' homes is as hard as life without oxygen, but getting directions there is a piece of cake. While your rental car is being squeegeed by a helpful road-side window cleaner, you will come face to face with a Maps of the Stars' Homes stand on the corner and inevitably be offered one for sale. Hey, it beats the Tours of the Stars' Homes, given by minivan...
Well, naturally, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals suggested in its magazine that animal lovers voice their objections to the mayor of Torrington, Harold Ehrman, and, naturally, Mayor Ehrman said the activists could "go stuff themselves." And, naturally, my wife asked me if I intended to take a stand...
...animal-rights protest to this activity was almost too faint for anyone but a marketing manager to hear, but faintly is how these issues begin. It may be only a matter of time before everyone will have to take a stand on deceased animals. Is it respectful, for instance, for Roy Rogers to display his horse Trigger stuffed in a noble pose but disrespectful for Torrington to display a stuffed gopher robbing a bank? (Burrowing, after all, is not a felony...