Word: denials
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...microcosm of similar scandal and tragedy. One chance comment in class provokes an accusation of racism that culminates in his resignation and the death of his wife. Based on the novel by Philip Roth, The Human Stain follows Silk through four major stages of self-identification: anger, denial, acceptance and confession. A self-made man in every sense of the word, Silk’s success in life embodies a severely warped version of the American dream—a light-skinned black man passing himself off as a Jewish intellectual. Newcomer Wentworth Miller is startlingly good as the tormented...
...wonder he has been straining to downplay Iraq in favor of domestic issues. The strategy has been helped by the fact that the British media have lately been focusing on upheavals in the Conservative Party, a lurid child murder and, last week, the strange tale of Prince Charles' denial--without disclosing the original allegation because a court injunction prohibits that--of a racy claim about him by a former aide with a history of alcoholism. Never mind: next week all of Fleet Street will be awash with coverage of the person a U.S. diplomat ruefully dubbed "the toxic Texan," whose...
...being in a vegetative state, but she was spared from entering the next world by the intervention of Florida Governor Jeb Bush. Nobody involved in this tragic case should presume the moral high ground. Close family members think if there is life, there is hope. Others, however, see a denial of the right to die with dignity. Bush family members are strong on the right to life. But that does not mean they or the Bush Administration thinks the state should pay for a national health-care program. That is anathema to these "compassionate" conservatives. Schiavo's medical bills should...
...microcosm of similar scandal and tragedy: one chance comment in class provokes an accusation of racism that culminates in his resignation and the death of his wife. Based on the novel by Philip Roth, The Human Stain follows Silk through four major stages of self-identification: anger, denial, acceptance and confession. A self-made man in every sense of the word, Silk’s success in life embodies a severely warped version of the American dream: an extremely light-skinned black man passing himself off as a Jewish intellectual. Newcomer Wentworth Miller is startlingly good as the tormented young...
Some people might simply say that Mrs. Cheney is as deluded as her husband. But I think that Lynne’s calm, zen-like denial is her way of coping with public humiliation...