Word: heartlessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...looks are no coincidence but rather part of an elaborate send, up of what Australians love to hate-the British and the Americans. Jackie's heartless, penny-pinching pub-tending mother (Margo Lee) is a dead ringer for Margaret Thatcher. Clad in a garish polyester pants suit, she layers on the lipstick and tells Jackie, "Why don't you stop wearing those ridiculous clothes, you can't change who you are." American politicians fare no better in Armstrong's vision. One of the film's best moments features a maniacal sound booth engineer presiding over a chaotic television...
...single episode in the 74-day Falklands war so upset world opinion as the seemingly heartless British sinking of the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano, in which a total of 321 Argentine sailors perished...
Having tripled the number of commuter-admits, the admissions office was portrayed as a heartless hoarder of Harvard's treasures. But had the school done wrong' It would appear...
Bitterness is conspicuously absent from this reverie and from the Adams women in general. They may occasionally feel like the victims of heartless or unworthy men, but they are too proud and intelligent to think of themselves in that fashion. They refuse to enlist in the war between the sexes. Both sides, they sense, are fighting on different fronts against common enemies: aging, disillusionment, what one character calls "the sheer fatigue of living." Adams generously gives her characters their victories, which, like the stories themselves, are no less exhilarating for being short...
...Faculty that it can't bully our leaders is misguided. It would not create a more perfect government but instead kill the possibility of any possible student forum to work beside the Faculty. That would suit University Hall just fine. And not voting at all is also kind of heartless: Let's finally give our junior politicos a chance to strut their stuff in a structure that actually shows promise. If we don't like what we see, we can get our money back. But until then, let's give these guys a chance...