Word: confronting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...They probably will only say 'That's his opinion.' " But the Vatican is highly unlikely to leave it at that. Ratzinger, noting that liberation theology "steadily attracts more and more" priests and nuns, declares it to be a "fundamental danger for the faith." A strategy to confront the movement is now, he warns, "urgent...
...Europe reared on the existing NATO orthodoxy, the very idea of even a partial redeployment is painful?all the more so after Lebanon. But we will not be fulfilling our obligations to the West if we fail to put forward an initiative to forestall the crisis that will otherwise confront us in much worse circumstances...
Most of the rooms in the museum smell of moth balls, alcohol and dust. By simply unlocking a cabinet, and pulling out one of the drawers, students can confront face to face a giant harpy eagle which eats 30 pound mammals...
...land cheap and getting the former owners to work it for wages. Ironically, the capitalists soon discover themselves in the same fix as Communists who nationalized agriculture: yields drop because farmers will not put in 18-hour days on someone else's acreage. The company is left to confront its "farm unit management problems," and Nowell sinks deeper into the macroeconomic dust bowl...
Kozintsev's bold direction and swift timing are perfectly suited to the play's central image of the "unaccomodated man" who ultimately, all alone, must confront the basic elements of nature and his soul. The play has been cut down, leaving only those scenes which further the plot's course of destruction. For example, the fool's part is shorn of its lighter scenes, leaving only the bitter social commentary. Thus the movie presents a Lear of pure and seemingly inevitable tragedy...