Word: confronted
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...assume an intellectual tone which rarely escalates to the level of heated debate to which they did in England in the 1960s, when Orton wrote his plays. What was perhaps revolutionary then seems somewhat silly now. I do not mean to suggest that the issues which Orton's plays confront, namely censorship, propriety and homosexuality, have in any way abated--hardly. Instead, they have become much more complex and have moved into different forums--the U.S. military, for example...
...York Times obituary said Warren"directed his efforts at learning how to identifyand control the hazards of radiation for those whohad to confront them...
...reticent is the word for Richard Attenborough's film version. But that's a virtue, not a defect, when your setting is English academia (no one has more persuasively captured its manners) and your subject is mortality. There is something very moving in the understated way that these people confront it, something very sweetly believable in their courtship and in the brief bliss they shared. Hopkins gets to do what he could not in The Remains of the Day, shake off repression, and Winger is awfully good too; there is a steady pressure in her forcefulness that is never flashy...
...adaptation, earlier this year, of Grisham's The Firm eventually took Tom Cruise's running man into the presence of his chief tormentors. But Roberts' running woman gets to confront only a few members of the supporting cast, all of whom -- Culp aside -- are drably written and impossible even for actors as good as Hume Cronyn, John Lithgow and John Heard to sink a fang into. And we never get to see, even in the shadows that are a Pakula specialty, Mr. Big -- who has ordered the assassination of two Supreme Court Justices...
...want to be the Grinch. I don't relish the position of condemning other students' religious practices. But by putting their tree--"X-mass," Christmas, Holiday, or whatever you call it--in my dining hall, those students are forcing me to confront the ideology of Christian communal identity three times...