Word: compassionate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most of the criticism for everything from nonexistent planning to shoddy building came from the Soviets themselves, not from the West, which seemed intent on showing the Armenians just how much compassion can be tapped once Moscow simply admits it needs help. Sixty-seven countries sent assistance, including nearly 2...
Welcome to the world of English writer Dennis Potter: a nightmare realm of domestic violence, scored to the haunting lilt of pop standards. His output embraces dozens of television plays, half a dozen screenplays and two novels. But the range of Potter's work is less impressive than its searing...
The movie begins just after the rape, as Sarah, her body bruised, her upper thighs scraped and bloody, bolts from the bar toward the nearest hospital. After more than an hour of legal and emotional skirmishing, in which a prosecutor (Kelly McGillis) decides to charge the men who stood by...
Jackson has achieved even more. Where Kennedy was a voice for the poor, Jackson is the voice of the poor. Kennedy's link with the fringes of society was through compassion; Jackson's link--having grown up poor, black, and illegitimate--comes from shared experiences of alienation and persecution.
Children also make up about one-third of the 37 million Americans who have no health insurance. Today the uninsured are sometimes dumped by hospital after hospital, forced to "crawl around like health-care beggars asking for some kindly doctor's or hospital's noblesse oblige," says Uwe Reinhardt, professor...