Word: plight
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fulfilling his worthy campaign pledge to conduct a "moral" foreign policy, Carter has strongly championed human rights, including those of Soviet dissidents. This has enhanced the nation's moral stature in many parts of the globe but has also enraged the Kremlin and contributed little toward easing the plight of those suffering from Soviet repression. Despite U.S. protests, the Kremlin ruthlessly tried and sentenced Dissidents Anatoli Shcharansky and Alexander Ginzburg. To back up his rhetoric, Carter presumably felt that he had to retaliate, and last week he canceled the sale of a computer to the U.S.S.R. and threatened...
...cool, (oh, so cool) figure, lighting a cigarette for Bogart under the bar with one swish movement, finally winning his affection in To Have and Have Not through pure, unadulterated strength (remember that word?). Or Katherine Hepburn in Adam's Rib carrying out a masterful delivery on the plight of abused wives to a jury which her defendant, against Spencer Tracy's efforts to convict her for shooting her husband...
...dissidents. Of 38 founding members of the Helsinki Watch Committees, 17 are now in prison, while seven have emigrated or been exiled. Yet another trial is expected soon. The defendant will be Alexander Podrabinek, 24, who has devoted himself exclusively to one aspect of the human rights movement: the plight of dissenters who have been imprisoned in KGB-run mental institutions where beatings and the injection of painful and dangerous drugs are commonplace...
Whatever the plight of the farmers, the real victims are the consumers. Complains New Yorker Henrietta Wise: "Every time I walk into a grocery store, I'm terrified. It's more than the prices, it's the whole concept of food. It's the basic substance of life." Some shoppers have become de facto vegetarians because of the sky-high price of meat, but vegetables are no bargain either. Marsha Avrushin of Oak Park, Mich., has taken to prowling supermarkets for off-brand items. Says she: "When I was a kid, a candy bar was a real treat. What makes...
...humor salvages their plight. Some of it is sheer vaudevillian antics - Dorothea doing body-wrenching calisthenics in her negligee, the half-deaf Bodey fidding with her hearing aid and trying to camouflage it with an outlandish flower, or Miss Gluck (Barbara Tarbuck), on whom coffee acts as an emetic, rushing to the bathroom to throw up. But more of the comedy springs from Williams' absurdist juxtapositions and mocking putdowns...