Word: respectiveness
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...from themselves and who don't participate in single-minded consumerism. It was interesting to read about some of the issues the Amish are dealing with. I hope your article helps people see that the Amish face very real human issues in spite of living in relative insularity. I respect the Amish for being able to maintain their heritage...
...chest, but this antiquated metaphor of military praise hardly seems adequate for Anthony Swofford’s breakout autobiography “Jarhead.” The novel, written by a Californian and a New York Times bestseller in 2003, should have garnered a little more respect from its native hive, The Sacramento Bee. Enter Sam Mendes, famed director of “American Beauty” and “Road to Perdition.” Mendes and screenwriter William Broyles, Jr. have produced a vivid, accurate representation of Swofford’s book, which opens this Friday?...
...trip to discover the culprit who stole his rug and kidnapped the trophy wife of a millionaire with the same name—is a must see and must see again. Watch, enjoy, and play one of the following “Big Lebowski” drinking games. In respect to “His Dudeness, or El Duderino if you’re not into the whole brevity thing,” the beverage of choice is the white Russian, a combination of two parts vodka, one part Kahlua, one part light cream...
...tremendously funny film. But its humor is rooted in the intractable narcissism and brutal selfishness of its protagonists. One laughs during “Squid” not out of delight, but in recognition of human stupidity at its apogee. The worst offender in this respect is household head Bernard Berkman (Jeff Daniels): he is a novelist whose literary reputation is diminishing in inverse proportion to his sense of entitlement and self-worth. For example, when asked by his teenaged son whether or not to bother reading “The Metamorphosis” he replies: “Kafka...
...people keep throwing food at him. When his father (Michael Caine) is diagnosed with cancer, Spritz takes it as a sign he has to get his life in order; he starts with winning back his estranged family in an effort to win his dying father’s respect. Whatever one thinks of Cage’s style (he seems as polarizing a figure as the one he plays), he does a fine job of portraying the lonely everyman in search of existential meaning. Those who enjoyed Cage’s comic bumbling in “Raising Arizona?...