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...Disney whore. To all of you who think the company brainwashes children, conceals a Satanic cult, represents all that is evil in our society, I can't sympathize. Disney's like Cher - it's always around, it always comes back when it's future is looking bleak. So as a concerned fan, I started wondering a while back why the last few Disney cartoons (not the Pixar movies) haven't neither been tearing up the box office nor instantly acquiring legendary status like the films of old. So here's my hypothesis. Just think of the Disney films that everyone...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: In the (K)now | 5/5/2000 | See Source »

...Davis towered above the audience as she described her many performances--at several points characterizing herself jokingly as a "retarded whore...

Author: By Parker R. Conrad, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Vaginal Davis, Holly Hughes Discuss Queer Performance Art in Ribald Evening | 4/20/2000 | See Source »

...English] 1. to place 2. to apply for putain n. [French] whore, hooker poutine n. [French Canadian] fries covered with gravy and melted cheese curds putten v. [Dutch] to draw putina n. [Russian] fishing season putan n. [Albanian] 1. hornless 2. whore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lexicon | 4/10/2000 | See Source »

When Bob Jones Sr. founded his university in 1927, explicit anti-Catholicism was a staple of conservative American Protestantism. Americans alarmed at the influx of Irish and Italian immigrants took solace in Reformation descriptions of the Pope as the Whore of Babylon. Eventually most American Protestants left anti-Catholicism behind, and from the 1950s on, Billy Graham led many Evangelicals toward a greater tolerance. Jones, however, reviled Graham. (He later reviled even Jerry Falwell.) His fundamentalist separatism suspended B.J.U. in amber on topics from anti-Catholicism to its ban on interracial dating (which led to the revocation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000: Catholic Bashing? | 3/6/2000 | See Source »

...determination, Arciniagas recognizes Jean's uncanny brutality and sorrow as he yearns for a sky that he can't reach, a yearning that ultimately leads to a climactic confrontation with his mistress. Only through violence does Jean transcend Miss Julie. Only by degrading her into little more than a whore (through graphic directorial choices leading to a violent, on-stage rape scene that must have Strindberg rolling in his grave) does he forcibly climb above her. And, similarly, only through this unbearable shame does Miss Julie ironically fulfill her wish to travel down from her precarious perch in the pure...

Author: By Erin E. Billings, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Touch of Class, Strindberg Style | 2/11/2000 | See Source »

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