Word: constant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Central to understanding the intricacy and power of sexist attitudes is the relation of public words and images to concrete actions harming women. Students have shown correlation between pornography and rape, and it seems obvious that the constant emphasis placed on an objectified vision of women's sexuality and on women's supposed passivity and masochism, in the media and elsewhere, do much to shape prevailing attitudes wherein sex is expressed as violence and women are seen as the willing victims. To say, then, that the statements in the Pi Eta newsletter are merely, in the words of a Crimson...
Since that time generations of Micronesians have shown signs of radiation exposure. In addition to the constant recurrence of children born with birth defects, retardation, and miscarriages among Micronese food supply has been drastically Instead of the typical fruit, vegetable and seafood diet once common throughout the Islands, the Micronesia from the United States. "Most of our traditional foods are contaminated," Keju says. "Our fish come out of the water already poisoned. Our fruits come out a different color and shape than they are supposed...
...COURSE, despite these reforms, the situation in El Salvador remains bad. Right-wing death squads murder hundreds of civilians a month. Left-wing insurgents are groing in strength; they control one-fourth of the country and have brought the economy to a standstill with their constant attacks on the country's infrastructure...
...final scene, Gortchakov is crossing the fountain carrying a candle, just as the madman is preparing for a self-immolation ceremony atop a Roman sculpture, surrounded by a myriad of oglers and Biblical symbols. Such constant merging of the subconscious and conscious landscapes give the movie a pervasive sense of weirdness, as the scenes are organized around their symbolic and subconscious meanings, rather than a logical scheme. The result is cinematically dazzling, if, at times, difficult to watch because of disjointedness and the fact that very little actually happens...
...shapes include the fiddleheads of giant ferns, fragments of woven rattan, dried anchovies, pig intestines from the Chinese market below Canal Street in New York City, leaves of the Monstera deliciosa (another bow of homage, this time to Matisse, in whose late works that indoor plant is a constant character), broccoli stems, bamboo fans, the seed pods and roots of lotus, gourds, warty cucumbers, the breastbone of a turkey: a list without apparent limit. Some of the things Graves brought in could only be used once or twice: a crayfish she brought home in a doggy bag from a Louisiana...