Word: notionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...heart of her thinking is the notion that pornography is literally a form of assault by expression, something like saying "Kill!" to a trained attack dog. "Protecting pornography means protecting sexual abuse as speech," MacKinnon writes in her latest book, Only Words (Harvard University Press; $14.95). "Sooner or later, in one way or another, the consumers want to live out the pornography further in three dimensions...
...early 1960s, Camelot was more illusion than fact. Back then, our desire for moral authority was so strong that we were willing to shut our eyes to the truth, including the sexual exploits of John F. Kennedy '40 from Winthrop House to the White House. When Watergate shattered our notion that the government is morally impervious, we decided that more is always better when it comes to information about our politician's personal lives...
What is the same in both Wenders films is the notion of angels as bestowers of grace on a secular landscape. Wenders' view is traditional and strangely powerful. He sees angels as invisible consolers, gentle kibitzers in the monologues that run endlessly through our mind. They are the eternal observers, God's night watchmen, holy voyeurs. Wenders would probably say they are moviegoers, eavesdropping for a few privileged hours on a world more perilous and beautiful than our own. In a lovely scene, Cassiel comforts an old chauffeur (Heinz Ruhmann, a German movie star since 1926) with memories...
...large-spirited American not like Las Vegas, or at least smile at the notion of it? On the other hand, how can any civilized person not loathe Las Vegas, or at least recoil at its relentlessness...
With its ecologically pious displays of white tigers and dolphins -- and no topless show girls -- the almost tasteful Mirage has profoundly enlarged and updated the notion of Vegas amusement since it opened in 1989. The general Las Vegas marketing spin today is that the city is fun for the whole family. It seems to be an effective p.r. line, but it's an idea that the owners of the new Luxor and MGM Grand may have taken too much to heart...