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...moral issues, it's a great way to start. And if Republicans want to prevent abortions rather than use the issue as a political tool, they can get on board. We have nothing to lose but trauma and pain and politics and death. And we have something far more precious to gain: life itself...
...environment where temperature could change suddenly,” explains Benefield, can cause sagging and stretching in some of the world’s most precious pieces of artwork...
...exotic, and then still manage to find some kind of universal emotional truth with which to imbue that character on stage. There are hundreds upon hundreds of musicians out there who can scream through blatantly personal songs about girls they dated or political issues that anger them, but precious few can truly illustrate a life that they themselves never led. Perhaps Meloy himself put it best in his “Here I Dreamt I Was an Architect”—performed near the end of the set—when the narrator of that song, like Meloy...
...made me believe in an unbiased, detached documentary crew, but the comparatively paltry breadth and depth of the interviews of the “other side”—those upset by the alleged immorality and/or illegality of the film—made me think otherwise. The precious few minutes devoted to exploring Deep Throat’s proclaimed nemeses—the prosecutors who drove it to the Supreme Court and the Christian activists who saw in Deep Throat the decadence and desensitization of an increasingly secular society—are jammed between long feel-good people...
Faculty members and students alike have been granted precious little space to publicly pose such questions until now. Grievances have been forced to build up over the years with few chances to deal with them as they arose. Their reappearance today speaks less to the opportunism of critics than to what has allegedly become an autocratic atmosphere, a climate of fear...