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...respectful notices that this film received after its initial U.S. opening in Los Angeles are puzzling enough, but it has nowhere been noted that Turkish Delight represents a particularly vicious fantasy of sexual retribution. The wife cuts out on the husband-because he likes to copulate too much, she tells him later-and leads a miserable life, moving from one lover to another, looking freakier and acting freakier. The tumor, presumably, is the final punishment for her infidelity and desertion, and allows her wronged husband the priceless opportunity to be magnanimous, to forgive and to cherish. Her death gives...
...strength of both gun owners and gun control advocates should make the battle in the state legislature even more vicious this year. Given the repeated failure of attempts at pushing gun control measures through Congress, which is beset by lobbyists from the powerful National Rifle Association (NRA) and large gun manufacturers, the state legislatures have been receiving more attention recently...
...There's a legitimate place for the handgun in self-defense, because there are a lot of cases where only very violent methods of self-defense are sufficient," Cassidy, an ex-marine, says. "In most violent crimes, the victim is older, less vicious and weaker than the attacker. You've got to remember that originally, guns came into effect as equalizers...
Here there is no doubt that they are as vicious, as driven as their enemies...
Surely no great intellect is required in order to understand that goalie baiting, which often reaches vicious extremes, displays an utter disregard for sportsmanship and common decency. Certainly the Golden Rule, however trite it may seem, is not beyond the intellectual grasp of even those morons who insist on detracting from good hockey by their gratuitous abuse of athletes who happen to play for an opposing team...