Word: whores
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lincoln was a whore before he was president...
...hard way but does finally accept it in all of its cynicism; and the idea is that we should, too. In fact, the message at the end of "Primary Colors" seems to be intended as a universal principle: in order to do good, you also have to be a whore or a hypocrite...
WILL WIN Count out Christie, whose film was barely seen (and not that great), and Winslet, who delivered lines like "I'd rather be Jack's whore than your wife!" In the Dueling British Ladies contest, Judi Dench in Mrs. Brown, who won the Golden Globe, has more momentum than The Wings of the Dove's Helena Bonham Carter. So the race is between Dench and Helen Hunt, also a Globe winner. Give Hunt the edge, since she won the Screen Actors Guild and is the only American nominee--that's how Tomei beat four Limeys...
Ultimately, the movie makes the case that Clinton and his mouthpieces are too squeamish to put on the record: strong leaders have strong libidos; the President may be flawed, but look what he has done. "You don't think Abraham Lincoln was a whore before he was a President?" Stanton asks his aide Henry Burton. "He had to tell his little stories and smile his s___-eating back-country grin. He did it all just so he'd get the opportunity to stand in front of the nation and appeal to the better angels of our nature." It's enough...
...pain for several reasons," he says. "First, you risk having your agent exposed. Second, who's gonna sell to a white guy standing in line at a crack house? So you get some piper [crack addict] or some whore to make the buy. Or you just pinch someone coming out of the house and find out who's in the place, whether they're armed, and where the dope is. Then you go in. It's illegal that way, but then you go and get a warrant later [and falsify the report], saying you made the buy yourself." Or, adds...