Word: dilemmas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Except, in this film, AIDS, which, as the constant threat of death, a death caused by this very exploitation of sexuality, the self-contradiction, the mortal self-contradiction of this exploration to the outermost of sensual consciousness is--to bring about the dilemma which is the storyline of the film, that is--a full exploration, through the three main characters (and the secondary as well) of how this threat of death alters their sensualist consciousness...
...germ of Danforth's dilemma is more potent today than when Miller wrote the play in 1953. Conviction and acquittal are reached solely on the basis of personal testimony, character witness, and most importantly, the social climate which dictates the popular mood under which judgments are reached. Walling effectively draws Abigail as malicious and manipulative, playing with her power as she would a dumb...
...Triumph at Berkeley and is staging his text of Changes of Heart at McCarter, thinks any successful production mingles both flavors: "Marivaux's plays all combine joy and ebullience with a savagely acute perception of how people operate. He wants to leave you on the horns of a dilemma. You cannot simply like his characters for what they are or simply dislike them for what they...
...indeed a triumph for the advocates of abortion if they have managed to convince Bosco that "there is no empirical way to resolve the dilemma of the fetus." There is no lack of evidence that a fetus is alive. How do we determine that anything is alive? Does it have a heartbeat? Does it require nourishment? Does it grow? Frankly, there is no biological evidence that a fetus in NOT alive...
...there is no empirical way to resolve the dilemma of the fetus. Our laws are, at root, based on societal morals, and those morals offer the only solution to the question. And slowly, very slowly, the country is reaching a conclusion...