Word: labeling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ophelia's brother Laertes is usually considered to be an Angry Young Man. But since this label has been commandeered by Walken's Hamlet. Chris Sarandon's Laertes has chosen to take on Hamlet's customary poetic sensibility. Sarandon displays the vocal virtues that were evident in his Prince Hal a few weeks ago. His Laertes is beautifully spoken, with plenty of variety and modulation. Yet he can summon up power when demanding of the King where his father Polonius is (even threateningly laying a sword on the King's shoulder), or when voicing his eagerness to engage Hamlet...
...fields with the herb killer. The Florida plan has prompted critical editorials in local newspapers as well as a lawsuit from NORML. In addition, the Chevron Chemical Co., a distributor of paraquat, has fired off a warning letter to the U.S. Department of Justice and the DEA: "The product label bears the word poison and the skull-and-crossbones insignia, but terrifying people in order to modify behavior is not a registered use." Still, Florida officials remain committed to paraquat, in part out of support for the Reagan Administration's policy. Washington has urged Colombia to spray the herbicide...
...first use of nuclear weapons or the threat of first use; 2) a ban on deployment of such weapons against civilian populations, even in retaliation, and even against military targets if massive civilian casualties would result; 3) a call for an immediate multilateral freeze (without using that political label) in weapons production and deployment; and 4) experimental disarmament steps by the U.S. alone to see whether the Soviets would join in. In arriving at these principles, the committee drew on church teachings as ancient as St. Augustine's concept of the "just war," agonizing over whether such moral criteria...
Underscoring this history is Shorris' contention that in their move to the Right. Jews abandoned mercy along with their faith in New Deal party politics. And because they have lost mercy, the essential characteristic of people living in a free society, Shorris will not grant them the label...
Near by, the Hotel Triomphe has been converted to an emergency hospital. In the unlit lobby restaurant, twelve beds are set out where the tables once were. A label on the door to the room states that American Express cards are welcome. There are more patients upstairs. A Lebanese man named Said was in his home