Word: disbelief
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This disbelief is even built into our judicial process. Recently, television viewers across the nation were given the opportunity to witness the ludicrous level of skepticism which greets a plaintiff in a rape case. The victim of the New Bedford gang rape had her "character" placed under glass and combed backwards and forwards day after day after day: meanwhile, no one, except a few lone voices, had the acuity to openly question the relevance of the woman's previous behavior to what transpired on the night of the attack. What does it matter what kind of person she was before...
...shakes his head as if in disbelief. "I wasn't." He sees a fundamental value in the exhaustive testing. "You end up knowing the American people as you would never know them otherwise...
...office on the grounds of the presidential palace, six miles from the airport, when Custodio informed him that Aquino had been killed by an unknown assailant. Ver said he quickly broke the news to Marcos. "The President was shocked," he reported. "He expressed a feeling of disbelief for this tragic incident." Under questioning, Ver denied he had informed Marcos that the killer was a Communist. Yet Marcos made just that assertion the next day in a television address...
...There is a dogma of disbelief about the degree of physical and sexual abuse in patients' backgrounds," she said...
...footloose fellow who helps her decipher the enigmas of her libido and the map that leads to the buried treasure. Their path is strewn with kidnapers, dope smugglers, sadistic policemen and a wide variety of unpleasant reptiles. But Director Zemeckis pushes them along at a pace that disarms disbelief, while realizing the full satirical values of Diane Thomas' brisk thrusts at adventure-film conventions. Douglas graciously concedes the movie to Turner, the wild and steamy lady of Body Heat, who demonstrates that she can also play repression, frumpiness and comedy. She is the kind of treasure everybody in Hollywood...