Word: familiarizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...much of this is within spitting distance of what really occurred. Even the little details in the film -- such as placing James Chaney, a black thoroughly familiar with the terrifying back roads of Neshoba County, in the backseat of the station wagon he was actually driving -- relegate blacks to the background of the drama of which they were the real-life heroes. One gets no sense of their courageous struggle against violent white supremacy and second-class citizenship...
While such assurances sound all too familiar, many Latin leaders are hopeful that this time words may translate into action. Bush has acknowledged the "enormous problems" debt poses to "our own hemisphere." But it remains to be seen whether the U.S. will finally have a leader who understands that a solution to the Latin debt crisis is in America's own interests...
...Planet of the Year, in lieu of the usual Man or Woman of the Year, had its origin in the scorching summer of 1988, when environmental disasters -- droughts, floods, forest fires, polluted beaches -- dominated the news. By August TIME knew it was no longer enough just to describe familiar problems one more time. "The new journalistic challenge," says managing editor Henry Muller, "was to help / find solutions, and that by definition meant international solutions." So we invited a distinguished group of scientists, administrators and political leaders from five continents to a TIME conference charged with producing a tough but realistic...
...likely to be critical in the next century, as growing populations, deteriorating soil conditions and changing climates put even more pressure on a badly strained food-supply system. In parts of sub-Saharan Africa, that system has broken down periodically over the past 20 years, resulting in the familiar TV images of children with swollen bellies and relief camps filled with hungry people...
...oversimplified and heavy-handed message. In the realm of docudramas, the best lack all conviction: last spring's Baby M was a gem precisely because it had no overt agenda other than to convey the clash between two impassioned, tragically irreconcilable points of view. Karen Carpenter takes the more familiar didactic approach. Message No. 1: losing weight has its limits (or, you can be too thin). Message No. 2: such an illness can often be traced to the failings of Mom and Dad. A psychiatrist who has examined Karen chides the senior Carpenters for making her feel inadequate and hiding...