Word: complexity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With the 1980s, photojournalism was poised before a future holding both great promise and complex dilemmas...
...sizzling sex scenes that ornament her recent movies. As a prim D.A. in The Big Easy, she gets lessons in precision ecstasy from handy Dennis Quaid. A Barkin heroine will tussle with any man on even terms, perhaps to the death. In Mary Lambert's gorgeous, complex ghost story Siesta, Barkin is already dead, but that cannot stop her from a convulsive rendezvous with the aerialist of her dreams. Or from looking sensational in a stop-light red dress and a body sculpted by daily workouts. These two films, though, were cult objects for cinephiles and discriminating voyeurs. It took...
...unable to respond to public pressure, citizen initiatives have mushroomed. California had 29 propositions on its ballot last year on matters ranging from limits on auto insurance to new tobacco taxes. William Zimmerman, who helps organize such voter initiatives, admits that they are not the best way to handle complex issues. But, he says, "if the alternative is no action, I'll take the flawed solution...
Under Torrijos, the Democratic Revolutionary Party (P.R.D.) became a vehicle through which once powerless nonwhites exerted new political influence. The ( party, in turn, benefited from its tight relationship with the PDF, which dispensed patronage favors. Thus, when the U.S. demands Noriega's resignation, it steps into Panama's complex mix of race and class politics. "This is a battle that is much larger than Noriega," says a senior official of the P.R.D. "Bush's people say they have no quarrel with the military. The problem is that the old-line oligarchs would use Noriega's expulsion as a chance...
...time you open a newspaper and see an analysis of economic trends," said Assar Lindbeck, chairman of the economics- prize committee, "it is based on Haavelmo's econometric theories." Haavelmo's key contribution was to show that the relationship between such factors as income and spending was far more complex than had been thought, since those factors affect one another and the rest of the economy. For example, he demonstrated that an economist could not gauge the impact of a change in tax rates on consumer spending without using sophisticated statistical methods...