Word: humanize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...which a prosecutor (Kelly McGillis) decides to charge the men who stood by approvingly with criminal solicitation, the film climaxes with a depiction of the assault: Sarah's volcanic flirtation and the dreadful price she pays for it. "The film doesn't show bullets," says Foster, "just basic human cruelty -- what happens when people are in a room together. It's not inhuman, which is why it's so scary." By then, the moviegoer -- a witness-voyeur, just like the bystanders -- is ready to have his prejudices twisted from compassion to horror. "We wanted to lull the audience and then...
...Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala, all three governments remain dependent on the support of military establishments that continue to exert considerable influence in civilian affairs. Death squads with links to the military still use guns to silence critics, making a mockery of the precepts of democratic dialogue and respect for human rights. And regionwide, the basic standard of living has sunk to the levels of the early 1970s...
Beckett sees human existence as haplessly ephemeral -- eroded away, the very moment it is lived, by aging and pain and forgetfulness and death. "They give birth astride of a grave," one of the characters cries out in the play's most memorable line. The barren landscape of Godot is not recognizably our world. The fetid tramps sleep in ditches and are beaten by nameless others in the night. But their frustrated yearning to be recognized and their sense of life as perpetual diminishment should seem universal. Instead, the supreme existentialist tragedy of the 20th century has been reduced...
...courage in trying to protect an endangered band of mountain gorillas; he also discovers that her love for the great apes was matched by her contempt for the Rwandan people. In the Central African Republic he encounters people who wonder why the West makes such a fuss about eating human flesh. Visiting his first AIDS clinic, he is greeted by a doctor visibly wasting away with the disease he is supposed to treat...
Managing the human aspect of the Reagan continuity looms as one of Bush's earliest problems. Many Reagan appointees want to move up in the new Administration. Yet Bush has more personal friends and acquaintances than any other political figure in recent memory, and members of his well-tuned campaign staff understandably expect good government jobs. How Bush resolves the O'Hare-style gridlock over appointments will be an early test of his administrative skills...