Word: humanize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Besides recognizing the obvious threats to the environment and human life, the committee also noted that nuclear satellites would speed up the militarization of space. There seems to be little, if any, civilian use for nuclear power in orbit--it is too dangerous and too expensive...
...leader of the FBI team, Willem Dafoe (who played the martyred sergeant in Platoon and the humanist Jesus in The Last Temptation of Christ) is a stick of righteousness waiting to explode. But the movie also finds recesses where human dignity and compassion wait to be summoned. It is alert to the shifting emotional weight and moral responsibilities in any relationship, especially in the quiet interplay of Hackman and McDormand, two ordinary middle-aged people searching awkwardly to be of use to each other. Hackman caps a brilliant career here as an FBI agent that both J. Edgar Hoover...
This sudden, inexplicable eruption of violence typifies what many find troubling about Oates' fiction. If the purpose of art is to provide a comprehensible context, an explanatory train of circumstances, for human activity, then Oates certainly falls short. She knows this risk and consistently runs it anyhow. Her obsession remains the untidy world where everyone actually lives, where headlines daily scream out the unthinkable and where nice people find themselves behaving in ways they can barely imagine, much less condone. The McCulloughs' marriage, despite outward appearances, is far from perfect; the author deftly reveals the stresses and fault lines that...
Mendes' death brought to 93 the number of people killed in land disputes this year in Brazil. Human-rights groups claim that gunmen hired by local landowners are to blame. Many victims, including lawyers, priests and union leaders like Mendes, had been resisting efforts by some landowners to turn large tracts of jungle into profitable grazing land...
...this approach sacrifices America's long term economic wellbeing and ignores the human cost of a lower dollar...