Word: vile
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this desperation might well be correlated with that vile statistic that makes this place sound like a eugenics farm: "85 percent of Harvard people find their spouses here." Hmm, just imagining the ego wars that go on in a Harvard-Radcliffe marriage will cause heartbearn. It'd be like the Clash of the Titans and "Moonlighting" all rolled into one and on acid. This would make a better statistic: "85 percent of Harvard people find their spouses ere...and 98 percent of them divorce them after two weeks of pure hell...
...Trish, the pedophile's wife (Cynthia Stevenson); and best-selling poet Helen (Lara Flynn Boyle)--their beaux and parents (Louise Lasser, Ben Gazzara). The prime setting is New Jersey, which Helen describes as "a state of irony." The whole film could be said to live there--a place where vile acts rub up against a Mantovani rendition of You Light Up My Life...
...arrest of five men and the seizure of dozens of computers believed to contain more than 500,000 images of children. Authorities in Europe and Australia locked up 49 people and planned dozens more arrests. Out of the personal stockpiles, Kelly explained, members traded "in the most vile pornography imaginable over the Internet. The images depict everything from sexual abuse to the actual rape of children"--some as young as 18 months...
...later on), "The law? We are the law." OK, so this movie, which was made in 1983 but belongs with the conscience-heavy movies of the late 1970's, paints with some pretty broad strokes. And it's plenty dated, given that you don't hear much of the vile-criminal-gets-off-on-technicality outrage anymore. Has it stopped happening? CP doesn't know...
...felt vile for doing it," she says. "I felt like all eyes were on me because I was polluting this awe-inspiring place, desecrating the Yard...