Word: victimization
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...final game, the Crimson fell victim to the longball. Birtwell didn't make it out of the third as the Bruins touched him up for five runs. Utley began the scoring with a solo shot to right in the first inning. Harvard tied it in the second on a Mager RBI single up the middle, but the Bruins sent three men home in the bottom of the second, capped by Charles Merrick's two-run double...
...teary phone call alone will guarantee an Oscar nomination.) But does the film, written by Susannah Grant, have to be both heckling and truckling? Everyone in it has one job: to endure Erin's ballsy superiority. Real actresses, like Cherry Jones, Marg Helgenberger and Veanne Cox, must play victim or scapegoat as the star flashes her scalding stare, her money-shot smile...
Among the stories he tells are those of an obstetrician whose marriage is bitterly unraveling as he attempts to prevent a rape victim and her husband from aborting a child, and of a feckless youth who falls asleep on a palette of relief supplies and, dropped into a war zone, discovers his purpose. It is Dizdar's cool objectivity --his refusal to dwell on anyone's troubles (or triumphs)--that makes his portrait of good hearts overcoming emotional Balkanization the best movie of this very young millennium...
...stage is set for a Cinderella run, but Harvard may be the victim en route to Dartmouth's fairy tale ending...
Many people dichotomize between the six-year-old and his father. The boy is a victim of a corrupting environment; the man is the culprit, the one who shaped the environment. But of course the man was himself shaped--perhaps corrupted--by an early environment. I don't know the details of his life, but I'll bet he didn't prep at Choate...