Word: plight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Yale Women of the Ivy League offers no more than obscure references to puberty anxiety, body image and isolation. Except for two or three poems which do not deal with the anguished plight of womanhood, these women tell us that being female means being miserable, misled and misunderstood...
Morality has never been her strong suit, but Madonna's new hit Papa Don't Preach is nonetheless receiving the blessing of right-to-life organizations. Set to a snappy dance beat, the tune relates the plight of a young unmarried woman who decides to go ahead and have her baby despite the consequences. "The song points up the fact that somebody needs to help these girls with their painful decision to give life," says Susan Carpenter-McMillan of Feminists for Life. Pro-choice forces are singing back. The lyric doesn't "show what it really means...
Editor Hunnel has had a few cranky calls complaining that he is ignoring Jesus, but he sees no way out of his plight. "I'm imaged to death. We shot it from the air. We shot it in the daytime. We shot it at night. What else...
...Kremlin bullying. But they were overruled by none other than Ronald Reagan, whose compassion in this instance overpowered his visceral anti-Sovietism. Reagan personally approved the arrangement Thursday afternoon (it took nearly 24 hours to nail down) for the simplest of reasons: he had been touched by the plight of Daniloff, and just wanted to get the reporter sprung. Said the President: "We are so relieved and happy that Mr. Daniloff is out of his 8-by-10-ft. cell, which he was sharing with someone we believe was an informant, and that he won't be subjected to four...
...know that might be a way to demystify the -- what? -- plague, curse, disease, tragedy, normality of drugs. The center of the wanting mind reaches toward and creates every element of the drug world. Is one supposed to lecture that mind, eradicate it, hate it, arrest it, weep for its plight...