Word: aspects
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Piercy chosen to focus her attention on the psychology, the human aspect of the situation, she might have produced a very powerful novel. There are the seeds of several very real and dramatic relationships, particularly between Daria and her mother, and between Daria and her daughters. Perhaps the truest line in the novel is the first...
...Ladies of the Club. " Now, some 50 years later, her overweight saga has been published to enormous fanfare. Only one aspect of this heartwarming tale falters: Ladies itself. Through innumerable crises, illegitimate children, laudanum addiction, lesbianism and suicide, the many heroines remain mere mouthpieces. They speak of sex as "that horrid business...
Israel, in conjunction with executive producer Joe Roth, associate producer Gautam Das, producers Ron Moler and Bob Israel, and presented by Raju Shared Patel in an Aspect Ratio/Twin Continental Production, fills Bachelor Party with a potpourri of literary and classical allusions. Rick (Tom Hanks) is a soon-to-be-wedded bus driver who invokes the love-death imagery of Wagner's Tristan and Isolde, the death-as voyage image of classical Greek mythoiogy, and the transportation theme of his own Police Academy. All at the same time...
Even short of the apocalyptic danger of their being fired in anger, strategic nuclear weapons represent a momentous, complex and delicate aspect of the Soviet-U.S. relationship. They have come to symbolize both nations' assertion of their global, often conflicting interests and their willingness to use ultimate force to defend those interests. It is their huge nuclear stockpiles that make these two countries truly superpowers, and it is the antagonism between them that makes them arm so heavily against each other; peace, and the survival of the planet, depends on the maintenance of a stable balance between...
...Americans afflicted with genital herpes, the worst aspect of the sexually transmitted infection is that the symptoms keep coming back. "Herpes is forever," as one wag put it. The average sufferer endures five to eight bouts a year of painful, itchy blisters; many have outbreaks every month. Now, for the first time, there is hope for those so afflicted. According to two studies reported in the latest issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, daily doses of a new, capsule form of the drug acyclovir can prevent recurrences in many patients...