Word: wooings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...immolation, five more protesters have turned themselves into human versions of the Molotov cocktails students throw with alarming regularity during South Korea's annual spring demonstration season. Although the suicides have failed to produce the massive demonstrations that pushed the previous regime from power in 1987, President Roh Tae Woo fired his hard-line Prime Minister last week and promised other reforms, hoping to end this season's violence. But street clashes continued, killing one more person at week...
With the exception of one or two unbalanced victims, the suicides have had the same motive: to galvanize demonstrators and rouse the general public to demand an end to what the students say are the injustices of the government of President Roh Tae Woo and of the corporate conglomerates that dominate the economy. The young political activists see themselves as the conscience of their nation. Enough reforms have occurred in the past four years to mollify much of the populace. That is the case with most students as well, and their apathy has frustrated radical activists, who have now turned...
Given the simplicity of the characters, the actors perform admirably. Both Fulton and Baptiste are excellent, and each manages to combine his political leanings with his sexual urges. Baptiste is slimy and arrogant, yet entirely believable. Fulton's militant idealism shines through in his final attempt to woo Evelyn, a stirring monologue about fighting oppression...
...fact, it is just beginning. One city council member, Michael Woo, has demanded the resignation of police chief Daryl Gates. Even the cautious Mayor Tom Bradley suggested that Gates must retire "before the healing process can begin," but Bradley maintains that he is not yet calling for the chief's resignation...
...making a general pest of himself with the family down the block. He is especially smitten with their 15-year-old daughter Laura, whom he showers with pet names ("Hi, my little Jell-O mold") to no avail. One night he even shows up outside her bedroom window to woo her with an accordion serenade of Feelings...