Word: confrontation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there is more to the appeal of Gregory's Girl than wistfulness for the kind of adolescence no one seems to enjoy any more. Writer-Director Bill Forsyth, working inexpensively on his native heath, is not one to confront life headlong and headon. He is a jogger not a sprinter, a man content to chug amiably along observing the world through a series of sidelong glances instead of driving single-mindedly toward a narrow goal...
...dotted with opportunities for trouble. "The Pope's visit could weigh heavily in peace negotiations," La Prensa, the leading daily in Buenos Aires, warned last week. Though John Paul carried no blueprint-only a desire for the two sides to stop shooting and start talking-he could confront a nation in a foul mood, reeling from a bloody and climactic Falklands defeat at the hands of Britain, the country the Pope had just passed through. Moreover, Argentina is a Catholic nation that has, by all accounts, flagrantly violated John Paul's teachings on human rights, a frequent topic...
...think we can scream that the recovery is at hand," says Maryann Keller of the Paine Webber investment firm. Even after an upbeat May, auto sales for the year so far are 36% less than during the same months in 1978. The automakers continue to confront the problems that first triggered their prolonged slump: high interest rates, a weak economy and fierce competition from Japanese imports. Says Fran McCormack, general manager of Clayton Motors Dodge in East Hartford, Conn.: "There are obviously a lot of people who need to replace their cars who are still waiting for interest rates...
Mandelbaum: I agree in part with that I think there is a kind of underlying reservoir of anxiety, if you will, or the collective pvsche of the American public, about nuclear weapons....This anxiety stays beneath the surface because most people would prefer not to confront the reality of our nuclear situation. But every so often something happens that compels people to recognize the peril in which we all live...
...have a cogency of their own. Discussing what he perceives as the modern tendency to appeal to government to solve all ills, including governmental ones, he writes that "government, trusted and feared, obeyed and avoided, revered and disdained, had become very much like a religion. Its role was to confront evil for the rest of us." Reeves' reporting and analysis compare well with Tocqueville's own, which is to say they are first-rate. His journey through a middle-aged nation that Tocqueville saw in its youth took him through uneven terrain somewhere between smugness and despair, among...