Word: pointedly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...certain that most readers recognized this as a common rhetorical technique, to extend the opponent's argument to the point of ridiculousness. Obviously the above attitude was never mine...
Advocates of legal intervention point to the tragic consequences of drug taking during pregnancy. Experts estimate that 375,000 newborns a year have been exposed to illegal drugs, frequently cocaine. Cocaine babies, as they are called, are more likely to be born prematurely or to die before birth. They tend to be abnormally small and face an increased risk of deformities or crib death. Moreover, there are strong indications that all these babies suffer some form of neurological damage. Says Darron Castiglione, supervisor of the child-abuse division of the Hollywood, Fla., police department: "These infants don't have...
...Secretary of State, who appeared surprised at Gorbachev's proposals as he flew out of Moscow, sought to downplay them as much as he could. He repeated that the U.S. saw no point in SNF negotiations until the imbalance between Soviet and U.S. short-range nuclear weapons is reduced by much more than 500, and he claimed that the U.S. has long been urging the Kremlin to make some unilateral cuts. On conventional forces, too, Washington asserted that Moscow was replying to American proposals...
...Guard churches that defined the nation's spiritual and moral ethos from Plymouth Rock through the 1950s are coping with a decline in numbers and social clout. Strategic failures abound in recruitment, missions and education, while demographic trends point to an even bleaker future...
...dead grandmother describes her search for "life after eternity." This complex material stays clear, thanks to adept direction by Lynne Meadow and remarkable performances by Jennie Moreau as the girl, Eileen Heckart as her tart-tongued grandmother and especially Joanna Gleason as the woman in between, the focal point of family guilt. Eleemosynary, which has ripened in regional productions, is Blessing's finest work, an enriching tale of sin, regret and forgiveness...