Word: plight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first rains begin to fall, the plight of more than 160,000 Palestinian civilians in Lebanon's refugee camps is becoming more and more acute. TIME Correspondent David Jackson visited several of the camps, whose inhabitants were bracing themselves for the cold, wet months ahead. His report...
...litter and throw away bottles and cans rather than return them, in order to contribute to the scholarship fund. One lobbyist proposed that bumper stickers be printed reading "Smash that bottle, crush that can. Go to college as cheap as you can." These critics would seem to overlook the plight of the average college student, whose most immediate concern is the nickle in his pocket--not some fund far down the road...
...with sparks of surprising humor and even a touch of irony. It is to the credit of Serban and the ART that this genuinely gripping production has been mounted. Sadly, it is easy to envision an even more arresting version, in which Serban's odd conception of the sisters' plight did not overwhelm the gentle, quirky, quicksilver loveliness of the play. Even when bolstered by the elegant proficiency of a director like Serban, innovation is not necessarily improvement...
...else in the world. The WWF estimates that 53% of animals in this rain forest are endemic, and so it is important that the remnants of the rain forest be preserved to stave off total extinction. The WWF chose the muriqui as the subject of their documentary because their plight is symbolic of many of those endemic species...
Aside from inherent offensiveness, the column has a real knack for stumbling on the Obliquely Offensive Reference (OOR). For example, most of the responsible media in New York have long trumpeted the tragic plight of shopping bag ladies--women who live on the street, carrying their few possessions in tattered bags. Nemy not long ago got in a classic OOR with her column about her own shopping bag ladies--the women who after a tough day at Bloomingdale's must maneuver through the streets and into their taxicab overburdened with purchases. The gist of the column was a breathless admiration...