Word: draconianism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...actor and actress. "Good Will Hunting" picked up some well-deserved gongs: best supporting actor for Robin Williams, a long overdue first win, and best screenplay for Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, the freshest faces in town. The biggest loser? It had to be the Awards' director, who, despite draconian efforts to keep speeches to a minimum, watched in agony as the ceremony overran by an hour. Some might say precisely the same of "Titanic...
Clinton banned federal funding of human-cloning research, of which there is none anyway. He then proposed a five-year ban on cloning. This is not enough. Congress should ban human cloning now. Totally. And regarding one particular form, it should be draconian: the deliberate creation of headless humans must be made a crime, indeed a capital crime. If we flinch in the face of this high-tech barbarity, we'll deserve to live in the hell it heralds...
...demagogue on the IMF deal rather than implement it quickly. Koreans who are not thoroughly disheartened by the implosion of their huge, highly industrialized economy are humiliated and resentful at the thought of a bailout from abroad. That makes it even harder for skittish politicians to impose the draconian remedies South Korea must swallow...
...capital punishment actually deters murder. While deterrence is always difficult to demonstrate, little research has indicated any diminution in crime due to the institution of the death penalty. While the gas chamber may strike fear in the hearts of many, hardened criminals will carry out murders regardless of the draconian nature of the punishment...
...course Lee will not pass draconian judgments on his sweet, sad characters. "My Oriental upbringing made me bring sympathy to them," he says. "It also gave me the fear of nature, fear and respect for something bigger than life, something unknown that you can't control." He could mean not just the ice storm in his delicately devastating film, but the wayward impulses that rage in every human heart...