Word: confrontational
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Bound at the play's inception in an asylum's "tranquilizing chair," Mary Girard struggles with only more confinement: even after she is freed from the chair, she must confront not only the stigma of being labeled insane but also the ways in which her gender precludes her from acting for herself. Lanie Robertson's short play considers the fluid nature of sanity and sovereignty as it follows Mary and her attendant group of "Furies," who are either inmates of the asylum, creations of Mary's mind or both. Director Mimi Asnes '02, a Women's Studies concentrator, cites Foucault...
...there were a string of films that attempted to confront, mock and criticize contemporary politics. Wag the Dog features a White House-recruited Hollywood producer creating a distraction--in the form of a fake war--from a risqu sex-scandal threatening the president on the eve of his re-election. Bulworth recounts the tale of a disenchanted and suicidal political icon who finds solace when he begins to speak the truth--rather than his usual lip service--regardless of the consequences of his offensive, yet candid, remarks. And Primary Colors tells the story of an idealistic political aficionado seduced into...
...questions. Would the tone of the "vast right-wing conspiracy" have altered, for example, had it been the case of a female executive officer engaging in adulterous behavior with a male White House intern? How have party conspiracies altered the political process? Most important, however, is how should Americans confront and consider the intimate details of politicians' personal lives...
...addition, the next president must be ready to confront the new threats to national security that have arisen over the past decade. Interest in Africa, for instance, may have waned since Clinton's visit there last year, but the continent remains one of the most politically and economically vexing areas of the world. The Clinton Administration has shown humanitarian concern, pledging money for AIDS treatment (which it rightly recognizes as a national security threat) and debt relief. Bush, on the other hand, has said that Africa, like Yugoslavia, is outside America's sphere of strategic interest...
...Sydney drew closer, modernist Australians seized on the new millennium as a time to confront their colonial past. Look to Cathy, they said. Freeman accepted the responsibility. One way to consider it is, while Marion Jones was trying to win five gold medals for herself and the greater prosperity of Nike Inc., Freeman's crusade had become cosmic. Even before the gun went off, hers had become the most significant race, in a political sense, since Jesse Owens shredded Adolf Hitler's Aryan showcase at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin...