Word: knowingness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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People with nothing much to do and no fixed address-hobos, drifters, tramps-used to seem almost romantic: accountable to none, their lives serendipitous and free. The truth, of course, has always been different. Rootlessness is usually endured, rarely chosen. "Knowing you don't have a place to live...
The women have the best of the book and the best of the songs, and it is impossible to choose a favorite among the sweetly earnest Callaway, the game and leggy Cox, the knowing but uncynical Fowler. But it is Callaway who has the show's signature song, a...
What they cannot say, however, is whether the working conditions under protest were the result of deliberate policy or middle-management bungling of an unmalicious kind. Nor can they identify a moment when Silkwood made a conscious commitment to a coherent program of opposition to the status quo, which would...
"You're a walkin', friggin' combat zone," Harry's boss tells him. "Your ideas don't fit any more." Alas, they do. Dirty Harry is the raging vigilante voice inside every put-upon urbanite. In the past, Eastwood has carried this contradiction within his own...
This lack of restraint sometimes even extends to cases involving children. When it turned out that a previously identified kidnap victim in Chicago, an eleven-year-old girl, had also been raped, the Sun-Times published the girl's photograph with the word "rape" next to it. The St...