Word: jolts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...process. Israel has insisted it will not expand Palestinian self-rule beyond the enclaves in the Gaza Strip and Jericho unless Arafat works harder to ensure Israeli safety by containing Muslim extremists. So far, the P.L.O. chairman has been unwilling to do that. Israelis hope the latest outrages will jolt him into action, but that would be a major departure for Arafat. "The question now," says a U.S. diplomat in Jerusalem, "is whether this man, who has survived by making compromises with his opponents, is capable of wisely confronting them...
...test is, Which provisions will reduce crime?, the red meat in the $33 billion bill isn't worth chewing over. Neither the jolt of additional death penalties nor the "three strikes and you're out" scheme that Clinton adores -- the plan that would incarcerate for life those felons convicted of a third violent crime -- would significantly lower crime rates...
...shotgun blast. Disney cartoons were often the first films kids saw and the first that forced them to confront the loss of home, parent, life. These were horror movies with songs, Greek tragedies with a cute chorus. They offered shock therapy to four-year-olds, and that elemental jolt could last forever...
Almost lost in the furor was the play itself, an unflaggingly witty and often moving slice of life among the young, hip and artsy in Calgary, Canada. A gay painter (Michael J. Blankenship), blocked in his work, tries to jolt himself by taking a job as a waiter. To help the young couple who own the restaurant, he induces his closest female friend, a beguilingly bitchy columnist, to tout it in print. The place thrives. So does passion between the painter and the young husband (Damian Baldet, a conservatory student giving a captivating and confidently professional performance...
Those feelings, in Hollywood movies, have always been the privilege of heterosexuals. Anything else was a threat, a jolt, anathema to the theology of movie fantasy. In 1936, when Samuel Goldwyn filmed These Three, from Lillian Hellman's play The Children's Hour, he removed the accusation of lesbianism from the plot. In 1947's Crossfire, RKO changed the homophobia theme to anti- Semitism. Interracial tolerance was in the air; homoeroticism may have lurked under every gruff bonding between cowboys, gangsters or G.I.s, but as for gay love, Hollywood dared not speak its name...