Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...CONGRESS THAT dreaded having to act again on evidence of presidential criminality heaves a sigh of relief. The inquiries will proceed, but without the same supreme suspense, without the same compelling uncertainty as to what they might mean for the president. The story now primarily concerns a cast of lesser characters and a trail of missing money. And even where the facts are clear, the legal ramifications...
...cult trumpets be raised: Hollywood is stagestruck again. Children of a Lesser God corrals five Oscar nominations; Crimes of the Heart blossoms into a modest, megastar success; Brighton Beach Memoirs and 'night, Mother find their way to film. All of which means . . . very little. Perhaps that there is lower financial risk in stories with few characters and no special effects. Or that the ravenous appetite of the home-video market can be easily stoked with product that has proved its value in another venue. Or that moguls have decided to bankroll a few films with their wives in mind instead...
Tough talk about significant but lesser issues is certainly fun for the council and good for diverting the attention of the rest of the community. But it won't get students the fair disciplinary system they deserve...
Life and death coexist with a unique ecological compactness. Nothing is wasted. First the lion dines, and then the hyena, and then the vulture, then the lesser specialists, insects and the like, until the carcass is picked utterly clean, and what is left, bones and horns, subside into the grass. It has been an African custom to take the dead out into the open and leave them unceremoniously for the hyenas...
...China and, to a lesser extent, South Korea, marches and demonstrations are among the few ways students have to make their voices heard. Says Kim Young Sam, a South Korean opposition leader: "If politics were functioning properly, there would be no need for the students to take to the streets." Observes a Peking graduate student: "There are inherent affinities among youth in various countries -- idealism, impatience and untempered courage. Chinese students thought that those traits could be channeled to promote changes...