Word: confrontation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...emotional distress of racism stifles the expression of all but the most sensitive of our artists. A direct confrontation with it leave mouths open in surprise; it is this shock that The Dark End of the Street portrays. The children of Cambridge must learn about this problem while they hang out. Here at Harvard, factions can confront each other on an intellectual basis, but on the Cambridge streets, people have to take sides. Dark End catches a group of these teenagers before they've learned to call each other "white bitch" and "nigger". When the film opens, Billy and Donna...
Michael J. Calhoun, vice-chairman of the U.S. International Trade Commission, said last night at the Institute of Politics that Blacks must begin to confront economic realities or risk being "left further and further behind" mainstream America...
...found "satyagrah," the creative use of non-violent resistance as a strategy for change, "a life belt thrust into the hand of a drowning men." It worked in Zambia, but his confidence in this strategy waned after he became the nation's first and only president and had to confront another freedom struggle in the country next door--Rhodesia...
...required by law to keep records open to the public and follow standard bookkeeping practices. Churches have to meet no such formal standards and have been treated as exempt from government scrutiny under the constitutional guarantee of religious freedom. But more and more, church money raisers these days confront a growing public skepticism about how ecclesiastical cash is handled...
...BEGIN, Heywood Gould has created a screenplay of almost magnificent incompetence. He had a promising premise: two dedicated cops Murphy (Paul Newman) and Corelli (Ken Wahl), confront crime, corruption, despair and death in the South Bronx; their turf is so dangerous that the precinct office is nicknamed Fort Apache, as it is, indeed, "like a fort in hostile territory." In depicting this crumbling world, Gould conjures up an assortment of ludicrous plot contrivances and inate episodes. First, there's Charlotte, the grotesque hooker who opens the film by shooting two rookie officers dead in their parked patrol car. Fort Apache...