Word: affirmation
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...wigs, the arrays of food, and the furnishings of the houses. Ranging from magnificent gardens to bleak deserts, director Carlos Diegues assaults us with a barrage of kaleidoscopic images. Even though these images never stop, no saturation point exists. Our eyes gladly devour these gorgeous pictures that affirm the gaudiness and materialism of Tijuco...
...conservative bishop fighting his church for abandoning the Latin Mass, Bluth left the Disney cartoon studio in 1979 believing that management was not living up to the animation ideals established some 40 years earlier by Uncle Walt. Soon 16 other Disney animators had joined him in his garage to affirm their faith in clarity of story line, subtlety of color and density of graphic detail. Now the Bluth Brigade has emerged with its first feature-length cartoon. It is something gorgeous to look...
...just that of the Gay Students Association members who immediately--and rightly--blasted it. The suggestion by Edward L. Pattullo, director of the Center for Behavioral Sciences, that society should exert "negative social pressures to deter homosexuality, shows gross intolerance towards the gay community University officials should swiftly affirm that Pattullo's views are not Harvard...
...petition--its first request is that Pattullo clarify his position, an invitation for further dialogue that Pattullo has not responded to. Nowhere does the petition call for silence. As for Engelmayer's suggestion that the appropriate respond to the Pattullo letter would be for Dean Rosovsky to affirm the Faculty's commitment to diversity--well, this suggestion would seem more aptly directed to the Dean himself...
...document also demands that Pattullo "clarify" his position as director of the center, that the center "affirm a policy of non-discrimination protecting lesbians and gay men and lesbian and gay research," and that Rosovsky conduct an investigation of the center and make "specific recommendation" to prevent future cases of anti-gay discrimination...