Word: harshness
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Vicente constantly wonders whether independence has improved things for people or if everything remained the same Director Gomes successfully poses this question to the audience from the beginning of the film. Gomes' subtle question climaxes in a harsh confrontation between Yonta and Vicente, the symbolic children of the revolution...
...farm-support prices in Iowa. Alone among major candidates, Dole must always play nice, having fully exorcised the Mean Bob Dole who allegedly possessed him in past campaigns. So when there are knives to sharpen, he is forced to depend on surrogates; the Powell camp privately grumbled that the harsh conservative attacks and nasty rumors were being orchestrated by Dole loyalists. The Dole camp denied the charge...
...Saying peace, peace, when there is no peace"--so reads the verse from Isaiah. It is an unbearably harsh truth to accept that, for the very reason that he was the most prominent of those saying peace, Yitzhak Rabin has become the most terrible illustration that there is no peace. If the wages of peacemaking are death, then we are all lost. Let us believe what the soldier believes, that death partners peace, and that in Rabin's martyrdom there is hope...
Kurz does not look at the situation through harsh, cold facts. Instead she views each divorcee on an individual basis. Her sympathetic portrait of the divorced woman's plight confronts the media's assault on the wicked welfare mother who is slowly destroying the American society...
...this particular family. Through the eyes of Rachel, the only ostensibly "normal" individual in the film, we see are shown a group of tragic individuals--a blind, abusive father, a deadbeat son--in addition to the superstitious mother and disturbed older daughter already mentioned. Sh'chur is a harsh criticism of immigrant culture and the tragic characters we are shown help us empathize with Rachel's desire to escape...