Word: complicitous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Several of the Asian male characters that Soong complains about are figures from the past, from a time when men were expected to prove or act upon their maleness aggressively. Certainly, there were men who did not abuse women; there were also women who were complicit in maintaining patriarchy (the film portrays many such women, including a cruel second wife, a mother who gives her daughter away, and a mother who throws her daughter out of the house after she is raped). But the truth is that throughout history, many men have actively kept good women down. Somebody ordered...
...Leno makes his living in part by harping on the foibles and pecadilloes of the country's leaders. He may even serve a useful function, reigning in the hubris of power with the power of humor. But when those same leaders are complicit, they make sure that politics are about these embarrassing insults, slips, miscalculations, and chicaneries...
...course, many people suspected all along that Clinton was a closet liberal, and that the New Democrat rhetoric would fade after January 20. These cynical liberals were complicit in the hoax because they forgave Clinton for saying whatever it took to be elected. Their suspicions have been vindicated--Clinton's liberalism has not taken long to emerge. But liberals remain unsatisfied because Clinton has failed to adequately compensate them for their complicity by fulfilling all of his campaign promises in his first hundred days...
...niceties slipped away in the middle of an emotional dispute about the 415 Palestinians Israel declared to be fundamentalist leaders and deported to Lebanon. Washington has leaned hard on Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin to take all or some of them back. Israel responded by implying that the U.S. was complicit in Hamas' terrorism...
...find the President complicit in this...