Word: disbelief
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time for the funny aside, the wittily telling detail. He and the visual-effects director, Richard Edlund, also have the sense to let the special effects look just a little tacky, so they provide a comic comment on all the ghoulie-ghostie movies we have been asked to suspend disbelief for in recent years. Whoever thought of having evil's final manifestation take the form of a 100-ft. marshmallow deserves the rational mind's eternal gratitude. But praise is due to everyone connected with Ghostbusters for thinking on a grandly comic scale and delivering the goofy goods...
...Soviets' belligerence be explained by the fact that they feel threatened by the U.S.? Sometimes President Reagan just sits and absorbs the negative litany from diplomats and travelers who still maintain thin strands of unofficial contacts. Sometimes he shows mild irritation and gives his head a shake of disbelief while answering his own question: "I keep reading that the Soviets think we are threatening their security." Reagan has rejected that notion, and so has his Secretary of State, George Shultz...
Nonetheless, Muscovites approached by Western journalists guardedly expressed regret and, at times, disbelief. "Come on, it's a capitalist joke," said one to a Western correspondent who phoned with the news...
...from the official reviewing stand. Before security forces could decide how to react, he deftly slipped between the ranks of marching workers, accompanied by a phalanx of his followers. Then, as the local Communist Party leader and the police chief of Gdansk looked down from the tribunal in stunned disbelief, the cocky interloper flashed a V-for-victory sign. A visiting Soviet party leader failed to recognize him and returned his salute with a cheery wave. Shouted an astonished onlooker: "It's Lech! Walesa is here!" Indeed...
...Conspiracy" is not too strong a word to describe why people treat sex crimes with distaste or disbelief, but it is actually too narrow a term, because it implies something that is done to others only. We conspire against our own health and safety whenever we refuse to acknowledge and confront the monstrous depravity which is exercised on others. Our blindfolds do not protect us: they only leave us uninformed, unprepared, and defenseless once we ourselves become targets...