Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hayes' homer, however, provided a quick and unexpected, solution to the Crimson's dilemma...
...chance to make a living in Port Alamo, whatever the odds. "You gotta be one of the last cowboys left in Texas," Dinh is told by Shang's lady friend Glory (Amy Madigan), who finds her loyalties stretched tight. There is no easy, noble way out of this dilemma. No one can win. No one is wrong until things turn violent, when the good ole boys put on T shirts reading SECRET MEMBER, KU KLUX KLAN and try to blow these new boat people out of the water. It is as if both sides were waging a stupid, losing...
Faced with the same dilemma, some states are choosing to keep prisoners convicted of violent crimes imprisoned, while releasing those involved in theft or financial skulduggery. However expedient, that practice has some inequities. The convicted embezzler of millions might be set free, for example, while a small-time robber would stay behind bars...
Advice to the Players, by Bruce Bonafede, is based on an actual dilemma that confronted two black South African actors several years ago in Baltimore: ordered by a revolutionary organization in their home country to withdraw from a U.S. drama festival as a protest against their government, they had to choose between the punitive wrath of South African officials and the equally ruinous ostracization by their peers. Bonafede's narrative does little more than state the problem with heartbreaking clarity. But his crisp, clever dialogue, enhanced by the enchanting performances of Tom Wright and Delroy Lindo, brings...
...fact that this dilemma is pertinent to the lives of millions of working women and, increasingly, men does not necessarily guarantee its success as the subject of gripping fiction. And Gordon appears determined to make her novelistic task as difficult as possible. The temporary solution to Anne's child-care quandary is introduced in the person of Laura Post, a large, drab woman in her early 20s who is hired as a live-in helper chiefly because no one else becomes available. Anne does not realize that Laura is a religious fanatic who believes she has been touched...