Word: samaritan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Porter, Gibson really takes the suffering-for-your-art mantra to a new level, kind of like the Samaritan who lies down on the oil slick so you can walk on him to get over the puddle. With each new movie, he ups the ante, symbolically slathering more mustard on the dog so that it becomes more about how much torment he can take rather than about the movie itself. The evolution of this Method throughout his career shoves subtlety where it don't shine. Mad Max meets Martin Riggs meets Braveheart equals Porter, the con man with a heart...
...told the audience about a two-and-a-half year-old named Elizabeth, who loved the story `The Good Samaritan.' Satcher said the child's father would read her the story and then quiz her on it. She always said the priest helped the injured man in the story. When he asked why she continually answered the question incorrectly, she said she didn't like the way the story went...
...Abramson, claims his confession was extracted by police while he was drugged. His friend Cash, now 19 and an aspiring nuclear engineer in his sophomore year at Berkeley, is not charged with anything, but he faces a trial of another kind, from angry Californians. The tale of the bad Samaritan has touched a nerve...
...seems out of touch; if he dwells on it too much he opens himself to charges of not having done more sooner, and risks sowing panic. Stung by Republican complaints that he hasn't addressed the Y2K problem, Clinton said he'll ask Congress to approve a "Good Samaritan" law to encourage corporations to share Y2K information and, if Y2K-compliant, to declare that their products are bugproof. "If ordinary citizens believe they are being told the full story, they'll be far less likely to act in ways that could themselves hurt our economy," Clinton said during a speech...
...crash, rather than being involved in a high-speed chase of Diana's car. One even claims his client actually checked the Princess's pulse while taking pictures of the wreckage. If this is true, it may save the photographer's skin as far as France's Good Samaritan Law is concerned. The court of public opinion may not be so forgiving...