Word: plighting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...already noted the plight of the loggers. Moreover, government projects like dams which would provide ecologically sound hydroelectric power have been stopped midway--after millions of taxpayer dollars had been spent--when an endangered fish species was discovered in the water. When does our solicitude for other species become the self-destruction...
...Society of Arab Students performed a traditional Palestinian dance, the Latinas Unidas staged a modern Hispanic play commiserating the plight of Mexican farm workers and dozens of other groups gathered over the weekend to celebrate cultural diversity at Harvard...
Spooked by Pat Buchanan's strength in the New Hampshire polls, George Bush stumbled through January feebly intoning his compassion for the plight of recessionwrecked Americans. In one notably blah speech, he accidently began reading the above stage direction...
Straight Out of Brooklyn--Nineteen-year-old Matty Rich's directing debut delves into the life of a Black family in Red Hook, a Brooklyn housing complex. The movie examines the fate of the young generation in urban New York City. The viewer sympathizes with the plight of the son. Dennis Brown, who looks down on his father, an abusive gas-pumper. But Brown has no patience to work his way out of Brooklyn and is determined to rob a drug dealer. Both the father and son emerge as the victims and not the villains of society...
Tolstaya roams the nighttime city, taking us behind the flickering blue lights of a thousand windows. We share the unsought intimacy of overpeopled apartments where "another person's wall darkens and swells with autumn anguish." Those who suffer must not only endure their plight; they must also surrender the peculiarly human right to be themselves: to lust, to scheme, to betray, to generally behave badly. Tolstaya is there to remind us that not even history at its most reckless can rob individuals of the right to their own stories...