Word: infantability
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...ingredients are the same: scenes of destruction and decadence, of incredible decor, exaggerated sentimentality, twisted passions and a non-stop dialogue of references to the terrors and joys of artistic fervor. But by now, this melange of heavy drama and unbroken noise-making is as old as Hollywood's infant epics. The vulgar baroque that once amazed, is muted in The Savage Messiah and serves only to exacerbate the bankruptcy of Russell's vision. He projects his messiah pose as a ploy to forestall criticism altogether. It is understandable for an artist to indulge privately the idea that...
...major problems. However, the visitors were told that some ailments have been brought under control. Cholera, trachoma, venereal disease and leprosy have become relatively rare. Polio, which still occurs in South Viet Nam, has been all but eliminated in the North. Even more impressive has been the decline in infant mortality. The infant death rate now stands at 26 per 1,000 births, a figure that seems high by Western standards but represents tremendous progress for the North Vietnamese. When the French left...
...again and again with a woman's high-heeled shoe and bitten him several times. What was even more unusual, however, was the age of those involved in the case: the slayers were only five and two years old, and their victim was an eight-month-old infant...
...from seven weeks to eight months-their assailants, from two to eight years. Of the six little murderers, one was retarded, one was a "slow learner" and four were "apparently normal." Three of the young murderers assaulted relatives: a cousin, a brother and a nephew. One killed an unrelated infant his mother was caring...
...insulted" Japan by not advising its leaders in advance of his trip to Peking and of the potential impact of his New Economic Policy. He had lost the good will of India by siding with Pakistan in their brief war, and he had waited five months to recognize "the infant, struggling nation of Bangladesh that has suffered so much for so long." Nixon had also "defied the conscience of mankind by giving up U.S. opposition to racism in Southern Africa," and he had "used the power of his office to bully and intimidate Latin American nations...