Word: confronted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...strong a word to describe why people treat sex crimes with distaste or disbelief, but it is actually too narrow a term, because it implies something that is done to others only. We conspire against our own health and safety whenever we refuse to acknowledge and confront the monstrous depravity which is exercised on others. Our blindfolds do not protect us: they only leave us uninformed, unprepared, and defenseless once we ourselves become targets...
...virtual tie, although a crucial 10% are undecided. The polls also show that 36% of the state's Democrats, who outnumber Republicans 3 to 1, say they may vote for Helms. "Helms caught Hunt off guard," contends University of North Carolina Political Scientist Merle Black. "Hunt needs to confront Helms on these misrepresentations, which are a modern version of the old whisper campaigns...
...unidentified police state, offers the horrific spectacle of the torturer as business executive, bantering with his victims as he sends them off to be flogged, raped or killed. In A Kind of Alaska, a middle-aged woman (Dianne Wiest) awakes from a 29-year siege of sleeping sickness to confront a reality at pathetic odds with her memories and hallucinations. Dispatcher, torture victim, woman, all struggle valiantly to understand a new world of menacing mystery...
...stubbornly remaining at home, and by using drama as a form of Gandhian nonviolent resistance. That commitment has inevitably entangled him in a series of controversies. When leading British dramatists persist in boycotting South Africa with their plays, Fugard vehemently contends in 1968 that it is better to confront the regime with its sins than to remain silent. When ideology beckons, he recoils, resolving at last that he would rather reveal inhumanity poetically than revile it politically. "Tell the human story," he says, "and the propaganda will take care of itself." And when the Serpent Players, his all-black troupe...
...shareholders will get a chance to voice their opinions on divestiture in Milwaukee this week at the company's first annual meeting since the breakup. Stockholders are expected to confront Chairman Charles Brown with a sorry list of woes. Those will include declining service, the company's rapidly shrinking share of the $44 billion longdistance market (in the face of gains by competitors such as MCI Communications and GTE Sprint), weakened revenue and earnings projections for 1984, and the performance of the new company's stock since November, down 20% to a near...