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...even worse; lynx-eyed sly little rascals that we are, we see right through them. (Up to exam 40. Then our lynx eyes droop, and grading habits relax. Try to get on the bottom of the pile.) Again, it is not that A.E.’s are vicious or ludicrous as such; but in quantity they become sheer madness. Or induce it. “The 20th century has never recovered from the effects of Marx and Freud.” (V.G.); “But whether or not this is a good thing or a bad thing...
...bombed-out ghetto. The film soars briefly as it reflects on the redemptive power of music and the Szpilman’s commitment to survival; it stumbles badly in its misleading depiction of universally heroic Poles and in its sympathy for an officer of Hitler’s vicious army to the east. The Pianist screens...
Instead, the typical reality-TV hit of 2002 took a retro format and gave it a good nose piercing. The Osbournes was a '50s nuclear-family sitcom with dog poop, drug rehab and F words. American Idol, with its aspiring teen stars and vicious-insult wars, was Ted Mack's Original Amateur Hour as reconceived by Jerry Springer. And The Bachelor wed--literally--'50s gender relations with 21st century sex. The show's secret (clear to its viewers but not to the paleofeminists and moralists who decried it) is that while The Bachelor pretended to celebrate a primitive dating ritual...
...added reminder to “Take Folic Acid!” would Cohen have opined? Publicizing scientific facts about when fetuses develop their bodily systems cannot be reasonably construed as “inflammatory.” Equating pictures of developing human fetuses with “a vicious attack on women” or “intimidation” defies logic. On the contrary, such images are a beautiful celebration of maternity and early human life, worthy of an art display (I’d suggest the halls of the Committee on Degrees in Women?...
Harvard Right to Life (HRL) has just launched a vicious campaign against Harvard women. This is not a policy initiative campaign or an awareness campaign. It is a campaign aimed at intimidating pregnant college women into not seeking abortions. To take the edge off, HRL has sugar-coated their message by couching it in childish language with a quote from Dr. Seuss and identifying the fetus as a little girl. Even the name choice is not benign: “Natalie” is derived from the Latin word for “birthday?...