Word: transgressor
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...movies about tough guys, and things blowing up. She's known for her adrenaline-pumped action sequences in films like the vampire western Near Dark (1987) and the surfer-heist cult classic Point Break (1991); the subtitle of the Directors' Cuts volume of film criticism about her is "Hollywood Transgressor." With The Hurt Locker, she's transgressed her way right to the threshold of the industry's highest honor. Breaking the Oscars' glass ceiling after a career of original, uncompromising films would make the history-making that much more fun. (See the 100 best movies of all time...
...wants to vote, to in effect play by the rules, doesn't it make sense to encourage that person, to put a collective arm around her and say something like, Let's go give those numbskulls in Congress a piece of our mind? Wouldn't that make a past transgressor feel as if she had a stake in the system? Of course it would. In fact, a Sentencing Project study that tracked released felons from 1997 through 2000 found that those who voted were less than half as likely to be rearrested as those who did not - or could...
...seizure of almost 4,000 firearms and more than 300,000 rounds of ammunition. In Leosa West, on the main island of Guadalcanal, a newly erected National Peace Council sign - one of hundreds all over the country - proclaims the community weapons free and cautions any would-be transgressor to please respect our wishes. Says council chairman Paul Tovua: "For rural people especially, the ramsi intervention gives us an environment of best hope. Women are tending their gardens, men are not worried about others with guns, and children are going to school...
...Carter, an assistant professor of sociology, speaks about the existence of “a notion of fictive kinship among African-Americans.” Referring to Loury’s negative reception by the black community, she explains, “One is considered to be a transgressor because he or she doesn’t hold to the racial party line. Blackness is equated with a certain political and social orientation. Anyone outside of the dominant conceptualization of it will find themselves sanctioned...
...jazz, where, as it's said about academic politics, the knives are so sharp because the stakes are so low. The grievance? Along comes a young, good-looking, white jazz singer who mostly performs familiar standards and stays pretty close to the melody--Diana Krall was the last such transgressor--and an entire generation of innovators gets ignored. Sad to say, this is absolutely accurate. It's also irrelevant--this kid can sing...