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Letting Tonya skate will send a loud and clear message that crime doesn't pay. If Harding loses, her victim is transported to the ether of celebrity as a plucky survivor of a vicious assault who goes on to bring back the gold for her country. In fact, human nature favors Kerrigan: Olympic judges, like Supreme Court Justices, read the election returns, and Kerrigan, the goddess of good, already enjoys a significant edge over Harding, the consort of thugs. On the other hand, if Kerrigan falls and Harding triple-Axels her way to victory, then what crueler punishment could...
...safety net to catch Kerrigan's fall in Detroit was this proud family. But how does anyone cope with the anger generated by a vicious attack? The Scotvolds say simply that she doesn't brood: "She doesn't have time to dwell on what's happened. Maybe after the Olympics are over." Wylie adds that she may be dissociating herself from the blow to protect her concentration. Kerrigan is, as usual, circumspect. "It's hard to know what to feel right now," she says. Admitting to watching the developments on TV, she quips that it is all a form...
...vicious cycle. I don't thinkconservatives have a place in the RUS, so I don'tattend meetings. I don't know how I got theimpression Boyle said...
Tobias Wolff's subtle, vivid memoir, This Boy's Life, was converted into a one-track movie centered on the loutish, vicious behavior of Wolff's stepfather, played by Robert De Niro. Fried Green Tomatoes, released in 1991, was a masterpiece of artfully soft-edged propaganda, a regular Birth of a Nation of antimale bias: almost all the male characters were brutes or fools or slobs except for a mute, guardian black giant, who was a sort of eunuch figure, and a sainted brother who died an awful death when young and innocent, and a little...
...Doll's House, Nora walks out of her domestic prison and slams the door. When men try to behave decently and pay the bills and be good fathers, and then are informed for their trouble that they are not only unimportant in the scheme of things but also vicious and piggish, they may become sufficiently disillusioned to slam the door themselves -- pre- emptively. They are warned off. A man begins to think that marriage is a very foolish choice, an overrated idea...