Word: plight
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ARICINI article on this page in accurately describes Israel's domestic situation and its regional international relations. The article commits the unfortunate error of blaming the victim for his plight and points to Israel as the source of much of the instability in the Middle Fast today...
...agricultural and industrial projects had to be suddenly diverted to meet soaring energy bills. The consequence of OPEC's banditry is the setback of the development process by at least a decade. The world refused to blame the Arab dominated OPEC for much of the Third World's plight and African countries have only recently begun to encourage Israeli brainpower and investment in their attempt to rescue their ravaged economies...
...scenes of peasants and cripples, the most disturbing and effective of which is the scene on the heath when Lear comes upon Edgar and a crowd of other beggars who have taken refuge from the storm in a miserable, leaky hovel. Looking upon the unintelligible mass of bodies whose plight is so similar to our modern day "bag people," the audience finds new meaning in Lear's realization that when it rains, poor people get wet--"O, I have ta'en too little care of this!" the king exclaims...
Utility company executives are bitter about their present plight. Says Don Beeth, director of nuclear information at Houston Lighting & Power: "The first lesson we've learned is 'Don't build nuclear plants in America.' You subject yourself to financial risk and public abuse." William Dickhoner, president of Cincinnati Gas & Electric, sounds a similar note: "It's almost a punitive deal to open a nuclear plant these days...
...would-be mentor's life. The next to go is Diego (Omero Antonutti). Encouraged by youth's unconscious example, he vainly seeks to reclaim the woman he loved and abandoned when he was Edo's age. The boy might be moved by Diego's plight, but just at the moment he is involved with a girl revolutionary he smuggled across the Austro-Italian border. Alvaro (Hector Alterio), his sexuality dampened by illness, his ego padded by wry self-awareness, endures, but only as accompanist to the boy when he sets forth on a soloist...