Word: actualizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Women's autonomy and rights are violated not only by the actual occurrence of violence but by the fear of violence as well. This well justified fear fosters dependence and undermines a woman's self-respect. She is told to be conscious of her lack of power; to constantly think "I can't..." Whether this inhibits her from majoring in physics, a "man's major," or from walking to the library, the effect on her self-image is the same. As Adrienne Rich writes...
...Opposes establishing an actual Palestinian state. Doesn't recognize...
...paper, 'Went to Harvard or UMass or wherever,'" Hall says. A University of Massachusetts at Amherst alum himself, Hall spoke of his own schooling: in one lecture on state government, the professor "taught the state budget process as football with the governor as quarterback." How much relevance to the actual process that class had upon his arrival in the Massachusetts state legislature, Hall left open to discussion...
Advisory primaries: This suggestion appeals to those who want to give the actual choice of the candidate back to local party leaders from across the nation. The primaries would force candidates to test their appeals--and could, presumably, designate the choice of some delegates--but would not choose delegates bound to vote for a given candidate. Most experts see this idea as worthwhile--but nearly impossible to enact because it would seem to imply a return to the "boss" system...
...empty-headed banality of the lady-star (Barbara Hershey), and a screenplay that at times suggests that talkies were a big mistake, Rush has created a nerve-tingling celluloid magic show. Rush is a master of the infinite details of the surface, the colored smokes of movie-making, the actual play of images on the acetate. The wholly superficial brilliance of Rush's direction is enough to make The Stunt Man a rare thrill...