Word: uglier
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...economic and political undertow in Africa these days is very fierce: young nations are gasping and going under. In some sense the leadership of a politically and economically successful South Africa may be the continent's last chance. The elections did not encourage the uglier projections. In fact, the week in South Africa was unusually peaceful. The moment seemed to represent a triumph of patience and forbearance and political wisdom...
...opening skirmish in this battle could have been uglier. The Allied Pilots Association last week voted at first to see if they should join the strike. They decided later not to count the votes because the flight attendants were so successful at interrupting American's flight operations. American chairman Robert Crandall, however, made no friends among his pilots after telling industry analysts, "If the pilots were in charge, Columbus would still be in port." The turbulence is almost certain to get worse. United Airlines machinists are angry that an employee bid to buy the airline two weeks ago crashed...
...story that holds so much pain for so many people needs a villain. Each set of parents has found grounds to blame the other, and as the stakes rose and the story went public, the charges got uglier. DeBoer supporters claim it was Cara's lie about the father in the first place that started the trouble. But the Schmidts' advocates retort that at the time she gave up her baby, Cara was in a fragile state, without the help of psychological counseling or legal advice. And the courts could not punish Dan for Cara's deception; he never consented...
...hard to know how to respond to Falling Down: deplore its crudeness or admire its shrewdness. But it is occasionally the movies' job to plunge into the national psyche, root around in its chaotic darkness and return to the surface with some arresting fantasy that helps bring our uglier imaginings into focus. In that sense, this often vulgar and exploitative movie has some value...
...irresponsibility. Their makers know that evil, as a dramatic subject, is no more compelling than the moral ambiguities -- the career fears and emotional compromises -- that rule most people's lives, but it is more photogenic. Here is the new creed: movies are pictures of stuff happening. And the uglier the stuff, the more, well, cinematic the result. Naked aggression is sexy. I shout in your face. I spit in your face. I blow off your face. I blow up your family. I blow up the city. So many films today want to begin with invective and end in apocalypse. Everybody...