Word: confrontation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Schrader wrote the screenplay for Taxi Driver, he managed to create a tension between the hard core or 'new morality' and the religious ferocity of the old morality within the character of Travis Bickle. In Hardcore, Schrader relies on the obvious: Grand Rapids family life and California street life confront one another on the screen. His device is too simple, and the extreme images have no force. The director's lack of involvement with the film lowers it to the level of a porn film. Schrader uses a classic box-office formula--a little sex and scandal combined with middle...
Confident that she has found a winning issue for elections that could take place this spring, Conservative Leader Margaret Thatcher toughened her stand against the unions. Said she: "If someone is inflicting injury, harm and damage, by God, I'll confront them...
...more about his lover's recent infidelity than the failure of their "revolutionary" act. For the self-absorbed members of the "Screwery," sex is a more important aspect of their rebellion. In this new order, rape and forced sodomy are acts of creativity. These adolescent-like rebels can only confront their modern-day angst by inverting old values. They disguise their nihilism and confusion behind a mask of politicism...
...Engelhard affair causes us to confront the dilemma shared by all private universities and non-profit institutions which depend on funds from outside sources for survival: the acceptance of gifts from particular private and corporate sources may unduly compromise the university's role in the wider community and its autonomy in making moral and educational decisions. This dilemma is especially acute for a School of Government where decisions to honor donors by agreeing to conditions of gifts, such as names, might conflict with the ideals such a School seeks to teach...
Main-line U.S. churches are unsure how to confront them...