Word: havoc
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...think he is smarter. I don't hear as much abrasive yelling of "Chauvinist pig! Male supremacist!" etc. But I do hear a lot of cool ironic hissing. Three years ago I felt practically traumatized before the picture of Dustin Hoffman in "Straw Dogs" wreaking bloody havoc on the men who had raped his wife when she asked for it. To me, Hoffman's pose epitomized the sort of sexual fascism that sanctifies itself by the territorial imperative. I saw the movie again this year with my younger sister, and her only reaction was a bemused "Where does...
...upheld the complaint of two women who transferred to the University of Connecticut, took up residence there, registered to vote and got drivers' licenses, but still had to pay $625 per semester as against $175 for state residents. If universally applied, equality of payment would wreak havoc in many state universities, but the Supreme Court did not go that far. While not officially ruling on the broad issue, Justice Potter Stewart declared: "We fully recognize that a state has a legitimate interest in protecting and preserving the quality of its colleges and universities and the right...
...Marvin is the soiled knight striving after honor, Borgnine the dark primitive force he must conquer. Aldrich's idea of making his stereotypes into mythic archetypes is to pump them up with hot air. When Borgnine and Marvin finally lock in combat they seem less likely to wreak havoc than to simply deflate each other...
...strike wore on, Gucci soles and tempers wore thin. Now in its 14th week, the writers' strike threatens to play havoc with fall television schedules...
...stars and extras, angels and hellions, hookers and authors, Variety is holy writ, even if its writing often plays havoc with the English language. A lead story last week about efforts to clean up Times Square, also known as Broadway, carried this one-sentence socko para: "Specifically, Times Square's polyglot floating population, the porno pix and the massage parlors remain a hard-core hard-nose hurdle...