Word: friendless
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...word may be uttered, it is not the word itself"); the kinship of the oppressed ("Friday's desires are not dark to me. He desires to be liberated, as I do too. Our desires are plain, his and mine"); and historical irony ("Even in his native Africa, dumb and friendless, would ((Friday)) know freedom? There is an urging that we feel, all of us, in our hearts, to be free; yet which of us can say what freedom truly...
...divorce owing to irreconcilable differences. Its narrative shadows the movements of two apparently autobiographical yet archetypal figures: Gregorio, a bloated writer captive to nostalgia, and Julio, a translator locked inside a squabbling relationship with an apparatchik named Luisa. In a society founded on unity, all three characters remain friendless and utterly disconnected; they see informers everywhere, and, they are sure, informers everywhere see them. All Havana, in fact, seems out of sorts and in a state of delirium tremens...
...response usually goes that Israel is a small state surrounded by hostile neighbors, that it is practically friendless in the international arena, and that it is still a young nation, only one generation old. But this reasoning is self-fullfilling...
...clear problem with The Buddy System is its lack of focus. The film vascillates between being a corny romance and the pitiable story of a friendless child, and never clearly decides which plot has the most appeal. Moreover, side issues like Sarandon's silent struggle to free herself from her mother (Jean Stapleton) are either given peripheral treatment or never fully developed at all. By the time the characters move towards resolving their crises, the audience has difficulty piecing together the tangential fragments of the story...
...Middle East superpower. Syria did not even try to engage fully with the Israeli military in Lebanon; Jordan and Egypt did nothing, involved in their own problems or unable to do anything anyway; Iraq is busy destroying and being destroyed by Iran; the PLO is shattered, homeless and virtually friendless in the Arab world. Israel's American backing is firm, and in general the country has every right to be satisfied with its present...