Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...accept the film, though, one must first understand its point of view, and that is maddeningly difficult. All we know for certain is that Do the Right Thing is not naturalistic. Golden sunset hues swathe the street at 10 in the morning. The color scheme is chicly coordinated, as if Jerome Robbins' Sharks and Jets were about to dance onscreen; the picture could be called Bed-Stuy Story, full of Officer Krupkes and kindly store owners. At first, the dilemmas are predictably pastel too: populist cliches brought to life by an attractive cast. Even the racial epithets have a jaunty...
...same reason, basically, that you step on cockroaches. Geraldo is so self-righteous. If he would just say, "You know what? We're going to have a neat show today, and maybe you'll get to see a woman's breasts." But instead, he says, "We're going to talk about this cult that stabbed the kids and cut the kids' noses off, and you'll get to actually see a picture of it. It will be really neat." Geraldo has that certain je ne sais quoi. For want of a better word, I would call him a jerk...
...some ways a measure of how many people know about your work," said Helen H. Vendler, Kenan professor of English and American literature and language. The selection process also ensures that the professor of poetry be someone with appeal outside the academic community, she said...
They are not. Publicly, Israeli officials are noncommittal. "Privately," concedes a senior Israeli army commander, "we are apoplectic. Acknowledging that moderate Palestinians actually exist in the middle of the intifadeh and that they are unafraid to meet Israelis when they know we can jail them on the flimsiest of pretexts means it might really be possible to achieve a peaceful solution -- which is exactly what Shamir is against. To him, calm talk can lead only to the thing he fears most, a Palestinian state in the West Bank...
Whatever the venue or composition of the groups, there are invariably two agendas at work, one psychological, the other political. "We Jews see the dialogues as a way of dashing stereotypes," says Leora Frucht, an Israeli writer. "The Palestinians want more. They say to us, 'We know you're here to assuage your guilt, and that's fine as far as it goes. Now what we need is to organize some joint actions.' They want us to refuse army service and lie down with them in front of the bulldozers when an Arab house is ordered destroyed. Because...