Word: viciousness
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...movie feel so masterful--Rafelson wants you to notice the facial ticks and pulsing veins in his quick close-ups. He is no less indulgent of Jessica Lange as she goes through her role of the petulant hellcat. Again and again. Rafelson sets up scenes that point to her vicious, fatal beauty, to give the sense that it is doomed from the start. His camera lingers, constantly circling Nicholson and Lange and they creep around each other in their American dance macabre...
...most unfortunate aspects of the abortion debate is that genuine moral and social issues have become obscured by the bellicose rhetoric of zealots. Earlier this year, LAPAC's Paul Brown made a vicious personal attack on NARAL'S Karen Mulhauser. Said he: "I hear that Karen claims she was raped. Well, let me tell you, Karen is not the most beautiful creature in the world, so when I hear her say she was raped, my response is 'You wish.' " Brown's comment was inexcusable: Mulhauser had indeed been raped by two men, at gunpoint, both...
...letters-including of course the crucial Scarsdale Letter." That frenzied, ten-page epistle, the emotional centerpiece of the trial, had been sent by Harris to Tarnower the morning of his death. "I have to do something besides shriek with pain," she wrote. She called rival Tryforos "a vicious, adulterous psychotic" and "a thieving slut." Harris described her pain, saying she felt "like discarded trash . . . You keep me in control by threatening me with banishment, an easy threat which you know I couldn't live with." To Bolen, the letter was proof of Harris' pathological jealousy. To Aurnou...
DURING THE great schism in French cinema many years ago, when the New Wave reared its vicious little head, Francois Truffaut emerged on the side of the angels. A sentimentalist and romantic, Truffaut seemed to lose any grittiness he once had. The tough but compassionate voyeur lost the harsh edges, the very qualities much of the filmmaking world was exploring with a vengeance The Truffaut of The 400 Blows gave way to the Truffaut of The Man Who Loved Women and Day for Night. He treated even his most repellent characters with extraordinary affection. When Trauffaut took a role...
...shortsighted view of the school's mission. Its highly econometric approach to public policy frequently precludes meaningful classroom discussion of ethical issues and fails to inculcate an appreciation for affirmative action policies. Its extremely quantitative admissions and curricula requirements dissuade many minorities and women from applying--and spur a vicious circle that keeps out faculty and students who don't happen to be quantitatively gifted white males...