Word: good
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there were quite a few remarkable films that didn't get nominated for an Academy Award, quite apart from the films that were nominated but didn't win. Today there are just not that many good films...
...standards, the expectations. The audience lives on a diet of television that is something like McDonald's hamburgers -- nobody asks how nutritious they are; they taste good. Without any lack of gratitude, I remember thinking after Chariots of Fire won the Academy Award that it was the kind of film audiences should expect every single week and shouldn't be accounted the best film of the year. I only became comfortable when Killing Fields won. Somewhere in the recesses of my mind, I believed that taken together the two films deserved an Oscar...
...years only two girls have become pregnant and, as far as the counselors can tell from their intimate weekly individual discussions with the kids, only one boy has fathered a child. "This is not a value-free program," he explains. "We have a message that delaying sexual activity is good. We are taking a stand." This year the Childrens Aid Society is establishing the Stern National Training Center for Family Life Education in Manhattan, where Carrera will teach his techniques to others searching for ways to cope with adolescent pregnancy in their community...
Though contraception is available -- prescribed by a doctor with parental consent -- Carrera knows that access to birth control is not enough. "When kids are empowered with information and stimulated by hope for the future, it has a contraceptive effect," says Carrera. "Education. Employment. Their own bank accounts. Good health. Family involvement. Self-esteem. These are also contraceptives. It's the total fabric that is important." Carrera also teaches them how to play sports, like squash, that rely on individual discipline and control. "Whenever you posit a single solution to a complex problem, you are not as successful...
...minds of the Western defense ministers who were in Brussels to discuss NATO's next dilemma: whether and when to modernize the alliance's remaining nuclear weapons. Some of the armored divisions rumbling through East Germany and Hungary were heading for assembly stations in preparation to go home, making good on Mikhail Gorbachev's promise last December to remove 50,000 troops, 5,000 tanks and other conventional arms from Eastern Europe...