Word: forthings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...never ceases to amaze me how some people can bombast about the evils of bigotry at one moment while breathing forth their own form of prejudice in the next. A prime example of such hypocritical bigotry was the Law School Coalition for Civil Rights (CCR) rally on Friday, February 26 in support of granting tenure to University of Michigan law professor Catharine MacKinnon, a longtime advocate of state-enforced censorship and sex discrimination...
...tell you that, because it's classified," he says. "But if you think about the major issues of the day, [they include] the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons [and] problems that go on in regional and ethnic conflicts, like Bosnia and Somalia and so forth...
...face it, there is an element of truth in the character of D-FENS. But it is, finally, tabloid truth. His motives and psychology are not, to say the least, subtly set forth. The menaces lurking in the city he traverses are exaggerated. And the people who drive him over the edge are all racially or socially stereotypical, the broadly drawn "others" imagined by the uninformed middle class, quaking behind the walls of their gated communities, talking at cocktail parties about buying guns and insisting -- not entirely persuasively -- that they wouldn't be afraid to use them. To the degree...
WITH ABOUT 45 MINUTES OF NEW FOOTage added to the already existing theatrical versions, and with the films themselves rearranged in chronological order, THE GODFATHER TRILOGY: 1901-1980 (Paramount; $199.95) amounts to a kind of cinema archaeology in which the skeleton of some great creature is brought forth from the past to stand on exhibit. This Godfather may not look the same, but when the archaeologist in charge is Francis Coppola, the object is not literal reconstruction but further improvement. If only nature got as many second chances as movie directors. This trilogy has a novelistic density, a rueful, unhurried...
...small minority on campus, decided to split up rather than band together. Indeed, Benjamin Franklin predicted that similar action in a radical organization two hundred years ago would be disastrous: "We must all hang together, or surely we shall all hang separately." Several of the players have indirectly put forth their hypotheses...