Word: abjectness
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...James Shellow of Milwaukee, secretary of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, asserts that the Erdmann affair "will further support those in the judiciary who feel that they are immune from criticism." Adds Robert H. Levy, a Legal Aid lawyer: "We all now feel forced to choose between abject silence and loss of our profession. One may, it appears, elect to exercise one's own right of free speech or forsake it in order to continue to protect the rights of one's clients...
...people suddenly zoom-out to include their surroundings: texts and contexts. And documented reality confronts the film apparatus itself: people talk directly into the camera, or they attack it, despise it sullenly, or avoid it in the voyeuristic hand-held sequences that record images of people in the most abject situations of poverty. Interviews are broken down into components of monologue and detached images, as in the long shot of guerrilla leader Julio Troxler wandering solemnly around the garbage dump where many of his compatriots had been massacred, while his pre-recorded recounts his experiences...
WHEN India achieved independence from the British in 1947, there were 554 princely states, each ruled by a maharajah (Hindi for great ruler) or a lower-ranking rajah. While the peasants lived in abject poverty, the princes had grown rich on land taxes and the sale of mineral rights. They indulged in lavish whims-concubines, opulent palaces, bejeweled elephants, retinues of servants, strings of polo ponies, sumptuous celebrations. The Nizam of Hyderabad, who was the richest of all with wealth estimated at $2 billion, collected mountains of pearls. To celebrate his 39th birthday, the Gaekwar of Baroda was saluted...
Mississippi Mermaid, and dozens of other French mysteries, were abject hommages to American directors of the recent past. This Man Must Die pays an older debt. As Charles seeks his son's killer, his self-examinations are not reminiscent of a contemporary detective but of Ulysses on some unchartable mental voyage. Indeed, Chabrol makes poetic use of the wine-dark sea and refers constantly to the ancient legends of death and vengeance...
...anti-war movement in literature designed for distribution at plant gates and places where workers gather." The SMC cited anti-war demonstrations held by the trade union movement in the aftermath of Cambodia. They saw this development as "a break with AFL-CIO President George Meaney's policy of abject support...