Word: treads
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...funny as a star facing middle age in Death Becomes Her; and Sharon Stone, her sensuality a tantalizing blend of glamour and horror, in Basic Instinct. But Oscar, a gentleman and a liberal, prefers women's roles that are role models. He might feel uneasy citing actresses whose characters tread the minefield that separates traditional femininity and modern feminism. "The general feeling," says director Jon Avnet (Fried Green Tomatoes), "is that if a woman is bright, aggressive and successful, she's got to be a bitch...
...anticipation of further disillusionment--in the form of an entrenchment of the Right--I invested in a small bouteille of Wild Turkey, into which to peer as swathes of elephants prepared to tread and defecate on major states. The Kennedy School of Government was already in Democratic rapture, as I cunningly displaced two old ladies from their front-row seats ("Look madam, there's free sex over there"--and off they rushed). But, decadently supine on my purchased seats, I felt it unwise to trust polls and estimates favoring Clinton. In Britain they are usually wildly askew, as the selfish...
...over "This Latin family is not representative of all Latin families. It is a unique and individual case." Representative it may not be, but the Gigante clan, portrayed by Leguizamo in this "dysfunctional family comedy," is certainly biographical -- enough so that the author expects to offend his father and tread on painful memories of other relatives, despite having already heeded pleas to change names and incidents to protect the guilty but hypersensitive...
While Cokane represents Dickensian farce, Lickcheese the rent-collector (John Drabik) represents Dickensian sentiment. Shaw is clumsy in his treatment of Lickcheese, and makes himself a little ridiculous by his continuous harping on the theme of hungry children and weeping women. The older Shaw knew how to tread lightly over such subjects...
...University is still willing to tread an easy path--on minority and women faculty hiring on the union negotiations, on legacy and athlete admissions tips--when the opposite course is so clearly right...