Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hirsch's Charles epitomizes the dilemma of having too much of a good thing. Bigamy normally isn't considered a funny topic. Yet the way Hirsch manages to deal with his world as it falls around his knees is funny. The simper on his face expresses the utter absurdity of his situation. As he tries to explain to Ruth: "Why should having a cheese thing after lunch make me see my deceased wife after dinner...
...Stealth bomber, recently unveiled to the public, has long been popular in the American mind--witness commercials comparing Japanese cars to the sleek plane. This has created a difficult dilemma for President-elect George Bush. Because of its ability to avoid Soviet radar detection in flight, the Stealth is highly attractive to both the public and the defense establishment. But in view of the $500 million-a-piece price tag, Bush must decide whether we can really afford building these expensive new machines...
...unprecedented uproar from U.S. Jews complicates Shamir's exquisite dilemma. His Likud bloc must either embrace the religious and right-wing parties to form a narrow coalition at odds with most American Jews, or entice the Labor Party into a broad coalition that would dilute Likud's strong-arm policies toward the Palestinians. After four weeks of marathon negotiations, the Prime Minister has yet to make the choice...
That it was not always easy to be a woman screenwriter for Loos seems clear. In 1936, she was faced with scripting Clare Boothe's play, The Women which was reproached at the time for its cattiness. Carey sidesteps the dilemma Loos faced, noting simply the play's "bitchiness...
...article, "A Higher Standard," Joshua Sharfstein attempted to prove the "obligation" of American Jews to criticize Israel "out of idealism and realism." But instead of justifying open criticism of Israel, he merely showed the confusion of a Jew who "faced the dilemma of whether or not to criticize Israel." His drawing of a false parallel between the general Jewish issue of "Who is a Jew" and the internal Israeli issue of the territories, and his failure to distinguish between gratuitous public criticism and constructive private criticism, lead to an article that contains more rationalization than reasoning...