Word: vendettas
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...Vendetta James McTeigue V, the hero of this dystopic fantasy, is a modern Guy Fawkes, the 17th century Romanist who tried to blow up Parliament. Four centuries later, he is a masked man with a mission: to expose, and explode, the state's dictatorial power. Scripters Andy and Larry Wachowski match their work on The Matrix, fashioning a ripping action yarn that is also a provocative political statement (justifying violence against authority). This V is for Vivid, Vexing and Very good. Petulia Richard Lester Gorgeous, desperately madcap Petulia (Julie Christie) needs a Galahad to rescue her from marriage...
...suppose I’ve been under the misconception that we should leave it up to parents (not legislatures) to gauge how to balance their jobs and their parenting responsibilities. Voting Martin down for genuine reasons—if she were ardently against hunting, or if she held a vendetta against other members of the Commission—might be one thing, but to reject her without even holding a fair hearing reeks of fusty politics. And whether or not Bennett’s opposition to holding a fair vote stems from Martin’s status as a mother...
...what he might call watching out for Harvard, but what in effect amounts to preying on you for controversy to sell books. He says you’ve met three times, but have never actually spoken. Do you recall ever meeting him? Can you divine the source of his vendetta against you? LHS: Met-without-speaking is an odd concept. I’m told there are a variety of odd statements in his writings, but frankly I don’t follow them. I try not to speculate on the motives of others...
...don’t think I ever got a Harvard ticket,” Royce writes, “and what Cambridge tickets I got I didn’t pay.”Still, some undergraduates complained that the enforcement amounted to a vendetta against student motorists, driven by angry Cantabrigian natives and a hostile local police force. Louis Altman, then a student at Harvard Law School, sent a letter to the Cambridge Police Chief detailing his claims of police discrimination. Only cars belonging to students or those with out-of-state plates were ticketed, he claimed, which violated...
...home like a stake through the heart. Pity is perhaps the most lasting emotion “Kekexili” imprints upon the viewer: Pity for the women and children who cry as their men depart for the mountains, pity for the terrible price one man’s vendetta wreaks on lasting comradeships, and pity for the total abuse of the men who strive to protect the irrevocably-tainted innocence of this so-called “virgin” wilderness. “Kekexili” teaches us to appreciate what we have—friendships, nature, certainty...