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A) Red light; offenses include "strong focus on nuclear warfare and the nihilistic desperation of it ...
She and her cousin compare breasts, play with vibrators, and talk in pig Latinish gibberish, but Jenkins never lets the proceedings get too sentimental: The whimsy is always cut with an acidic awareness of the family's desperation.
Chechens claim to have seized a village southwest of Grozny; Russians said the fighters fled the capital in desperation.
Inside Russia, Chernomyrdin is remembered as the man who presided over the country's transition from a period of utter economic and social desperation to one of relative stability.
Several critics carp that Mike Myers' horny '60s swinger is not as novel the second time around: "Most of the silliness has become pretty strenuous and some of the sweetness has settled into desperation" (Joe Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ). But despite their protestations, reviewers can't help recounting all their favorite jokes from the film, a habit that effectively dilutes their complaints.