Word: brinkly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...neither is it simply another eloquent discussion of the horrifying situation the world is in. Though it is beautifully written (and many similar studies are not), it is also one of the best presentations of the roots and magnitude of the problem of moving the world away from the brink. Combined, Dyson's erudition and realism lead him to an approach which may represent a true step towards a world in which nuclear weapons are not just absent, but also unnecessary, unwanted, and unlikely to return...
...Bauer offers is Reaganomics for the Third World, with all the simplistic faith in market solutions of its American relative. But no one is quite so arrogant as to suggest that there is nobody starring in Africa or Latin America in nations where so many people live at the brink of subsistence, there is little patience with policies which endorse present suffering for a rosier future. In the short run, many...
...lots of practice," she shrugs. "I was lucky to start very young." When Writer-Director Bertrand Blier turns his attention to the precocious young (a 13-year-old genius in Get Out Your Handkerchiefs; a budding stepdaughter in Beau-Pere) he creates sexual fables poised on the brink of moral anarchy. No such luck in My Best Friend's Girl (La Femme de Mon Pole), an "adult" triangle about a sad-sack disc jockey and a tall, dark and blandsome shop owner both in love with a woman Unworthy of Their Affections. Outfitted in Whore of Babylon red slips...
...sidestep the problem altogether, and this is Silver's eminently successful strategy. To say that Harvard is merely the backdrop for Death of a Harvard Freshman wouldn't be quite fair; most of the plot elements are uniquely Harvard, from the Nietzsche course which sends one student over the brink to the rivalry between Lauren, defiant product of the New Jersey public school system, and a stuffy preppie couple from Exeter. And Silver gets endless mileage out of Lauren's freshman-week-esque enthusiasm over her classmates' brilliance and diversity...
...said yesterday that they were asked to help develop crisis situation procedures for administrators "when negotiations are on the brink," said...