Word: wronging
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...hadn't brought those people in, there wouldn't have been anyone there," Anderson says. "I'm under the impression that in any election you should know even before you enter the room that you're going to win. If you don't, you've done something wrong...
...Ehrenreich often undermines her anthropological wisdom by concluding her essays with whiny pronouncements, as in: "There is something grievously wrong with a culture that values Wall Street sharks above social workers, armament manufacturers above artists, or, for that matter, corporate lawyers above homemakers." And as if to justify her hostility toward yuppies, she insists on painting an idyllic picture of blue-collar Americans as "more intellectually engaged," more generous of spirit and, of course, better in bed. Overall, her observations suffer from a simplistic yearning for a nonexistent era when the poor were not blamed for their poverty, when people...
...Clay's comedy, woman is only a sexual convenience, a sentimental slag, a "dishrag hoo-er." For him, all romantic encounters hover between mechanical sex and date rape. "So I say to the bitch, 'Lose the bra -- or I'll cut ya.' Is that a wrong attitude?" The obvious answer is yes. Nearly everything he says is wildly heinous. Clay knows this, and so do his fans; their laughter is a release at hearing forbidden thoughts twisted into jokes. Says Leonard R.N. Ashley, an English professor at Brooklyn College: "Because the seven dirty words are in now common usage, there...
ELLIOT LOVES. Mike Nichols directing, Jules Feiffer writing and two-time Tony- winner Christine Baranski acting. How wrong can you go? This tale of mid- life crisis-cum-romance is at Chicago's Goodman, but can Broadway...
...transgressed certain of the laws and regulations that govern our industry. I was wrong in doing so and knew at the time, and I am pleading guilty to these offenses." With those contrite but carefully crafted words, | deposed junk-bond king Michael Milken, 43, began a tearful confession before a federal judge in Manhattan last week. The man whose deals revolutionized Wall Street and convulsed corporate America read a 15-min. statement detailing his role in securities fraud that involved recently paroled speculator Ivan Boesky and investment banker Dennis Levine. "My plea is an acceptance of personal responsibility...