Word: whoring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cute gargoyles of being the first grownup singing-cartoon romantic tragedy. But these two movies also had an almost toxic serioso content. At times they got so solemn they could have been Broadway musicals in the fashionable I'm-miserable-I'm-a- monster-I'm-a-Times-Square-whore-my-ship-is-sinking mode. Songs for suicides...
David's virulently racist family cannot reconcile themselves to knowing that he was in love with what they call a "yellow whore." Ozzie, disturbed by his son's serious relationship with Zung, spitefully proclaims at one point: "They got diseases...he touched 'em. That's disgusting," and later says that David just wanted to have "little, bitty, Chinky kids." Harriet says, in a disturbingly soft, coddling tone, of Vietnamese people, "Their poor funny little faces...Human faces weren't meant to look like that.... It is our triumph, our whiteness...
...Hill" exemplifies our hypocritical stance toward virginity and sexual promiscuity. It is proper for a woman to be a virgin, but it is not desirable in a man. Our society considers a promiscuous man a stud, the picture of machismo, while a promiscuous woman is viewed as a whore, slut or harlot, the antithesis of femininity. With the help of feminist scholarship, we have come to recognize this hypocrisy and have slowly been making headway in eradicating this double standard. Our recent enlightenment demonstrates that recognition of these double standards is the first step in reversing them...
...whose funeral her servant mother was forbidden to attend, gets back at the middle class with her upwardly nubile conquest of the military aristocracy. Our guide in this revenge melodrama is a sardonic, Rice-like narrator (Antonio Banderas), offering keys to the allure of Santa Evita, first lady, holy whore...
...addition to lending his expertise to the opposition, over the years Whitehurst has dispatched hundreds of memos to the Justice Department, critiquing his colleagues' performance and accusing the FBI of a pro-prosecution slant in dozens of investigations. "Science," he says, "cannot be a whore to a political agenda." Last fall at Attorney General Janet Reno's request, Justice Inspector General Michael Bromwich assembled an international team of forensic scientists to conduct an exhaustive investigation of Whitehurst's charges. Though the report is not due until the end of this year, TIME has learned that it is likely to reject...