Word: distinctiveness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...older brother's narration, however, falls short. Vilmure, unable to create a distinct voice for the disturbed teenager, relies on interspersed, italicized flashbacks to distinguish the older brother's words. But Vilmure's struggle to give a voice to the illiterate older brother is admirable, speech being his only way of communicating with the world...
...only wrong but unwise" to try to make doctrine the basis for public policy. He is wary of official political stands by religious groups, except in the case of such manifest evils as slavery and Nazism. Though against rigid church-state separation, Colson argues that each institution has a distinct, God-given role. Churches should emphasize spirituality and avoid the corrupting enticements of political power. Similarly, he opposes government- organized school prayers, insisting that "propagating moral vision" should be the job of the church, not the state...
...nostalgic $8 billion public jobs program, modeled after Franklin Roosevelt's WPA. There is a lingering suspicion that Democratic voters are just flirting with Simon before they pledge their troth to a more conventionally marriageable candidate. As a top strategist to a Democratic rival puts it, "There is a distinct limit to how much his support can grow...
...Stella now took the minimalist obsession with fabrication (as distinct from handmaking) and used it to carry all that was maximal: sweeping gestures, textural scribbles, hot collisions of color, a romantic sense of barely sustained cohesion. But Stella's "new look" of spontaneity was itself a kind of theatrical fiction. The pragmatic essence of the early paintings lies not far below the gesticular surface of his work after 1975. Nevertheless he was putting himself at some risk. His new paintings, as they got loopier and more & baroque, looked like a critique of the high cool and decorous lyricism that...
...Mood, a movie distinct from other movies but nonetheless worthless, takes place in 1944 and tells the story of Ellsworth "Sonny" Wisecarver, a youth who was too young to be kicking Nazi butt during that gloriously simple timne, so did the next best thing: ran away with an older woman. Two, in fact--one played by Beverly D'Angelo and the other by Talia Balsam...