Word: dilemmas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...film tells the story of budding young basketball star Kyle Watson (Duane Martin) who is supposedly torn between the influence of the fast-living Birdie (Tupac Shakur) and the more responsible Tommy Shepard (Leon Robinson). But the movie isn't very good at presenting a convincing moral dilemma...
...parking lot, complete with party babes in skimpy spandex, "Major League II" lets us know that success has corrupted the lovable bunch of ragtag Indians. In their new-found fame, the players have forgotten the humble roots that gave them their grit and winning quality. It's the dilemma posed by the American dream: how to move from rags to riches while still holding onto the down-to-earth, rough but honest rags that made the riches first possible...
...America has traditionally paid little attention to deaf people, so they are used to second-class treatment. It will take more than words to counter the fatalism expressed by Steven Collins, the current chairman of the National Coalition on HIV and the Deaf Community, as he surveys the current dilemma. "I'm sad but not shocked," he types on his TTY. "Deaf is a small community. Deaf is not important. Deaf people are dying because of that...
...10th Administration official, senior adviser George Stephanopoulos, possibly to ask him what he may have said about Whitewater in phone conversations with Deputy Treasury Secretary Roger Altman. As for congressional hearings, Clinton knows they will become a highly partisan circus. But the prospect nonetheless puts him in a dilemma pithily summarized by his chief Republican congressional tormentor, Iowa Representative Jim Leach: "If ((Democrats)) provide me a hearing, their President is likely to be embarrassed. If they don't, they look like they have been complicitous in working with the Executive Branch to block full disclosure...
...Manson show seemed to crystallize the dilemma. At a press conference, ABC News president Roone Arledge described the in-house debate over whether to launch Turning Point with the Manson show or with another, softer program about a couple who gave birth to sextuplets. Picking Manson, said Arledge with unusual candor, was a matter of "pragmatism" -- a way to draw immediate attention to the new series...