Word: worded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this original screen adaptation of Choderlos de Laclos' scandalous 18th century novel, the game is everything Provocative and intriguing, Roger Vadim's film, set in contemporary Paris and New York, proves that Michelle Pfieffer did not have the last word as Madame Tourvel in the 1988 release of the film...
...problem with Wednesday's show was that Dylan demonstrated too much aggressiveness, emphasizing harsh riffs and a "to-hell-with-you" attitude in nearly every song. When he sang "It Ain't Me Babe," he spat out every word, chopping his verses in such a manner as to confound any attempt by the audience to sing along. In last night's rendition, the chorus of "I Shall Be Released" became a defiant cry rather than a moving affirmation, and Dylan's spitfire version of "Maggie's Farm" emphasized driving anger rather than Iyric comprehension. In other words, you knew...
...Three large, hairy and somewhat inebriated guys wearing "Harvard: The Northeastern of Cambridge" shirts ask me if they can "borrow" my identification. I give them my outdated Boston Public Library card and tell them that the secret code word is "Zeek...
...Fidel Castro and similar pranks, and is a distant echo of the reactions to the assassination of President Kennedy. But there is nothing in the order limiting the ban to covert action or to attempts on heads of state. It simply forbids "assassination." What is assassination? If the word just means killing someone, anyone, for political reasons, then it effectively bans the use of -- or even conspiracy to use -- lethal force. That would make America the first pacifist superpower. The whole Pentagon should be arrested...
...Administration prefers a less spacious definition. But attempts to limit the scope of the anathema make it meaningless. According to State Department legal adviser Abraham Sofaer, assassination is the "unlawful killing of particular individuals for political purposes." The key word is "unlawful." It's not unlawful to kill combatants in wartime, or even to kill noncombatant civilians in the course of a legitimate military operation. It is "self- defense" to kill a head of state who is masterminding terrorist operations that threaten the national security of the U.S., the argument goes. But if the assassination ban forbids nothing that...