Word: protection
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...names in this story have been changed to protect the bored...
...with our notions about love and relationships. He takes special delight in destroying the easy, escapist nature of most melodrama. He even overturns the convention of the damsel in distress. Maura, as the transsexual actress, is sexy and provocative--Almodovar makes the audience lust after her and want to protect her. At the same time, we are constantly reminded that she was once...
...this is not enough. No legislation can protect the fifty-cent cup of coffee. Harvard University, though, can join forces with the many local residents pushing for tighter zoning restrictions to keep the business district from sprawling upward and outward...
...Kraemer, that denied state courts the authority to enforce racially restrictive agreements between sellers and buyers; Griswold v. Connecticut, which in 1965 struck down a state law forbidding the use of contraceptives even by married couples; the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that extended the right of privacy to protect abortion; and the 1978 Bakke v. University of California decision that permitted affirmative action, though it disallowed strict racial quotas...
...Equal protection. A central instrument of court power has been the 14th & Amendment. Though drafted in the post-Civil War era chiefly to ensure just treatment for blacks, it extends its guarantees of due process and equal protection under the law to "any person," allowing the court to invoke it to cover women, aliens, illegitimate children and sometimes the poor. Bork defends the landmark Brown v. Board of Education school desegregation case on the ground that the intent of the 14th Amendment contains the "core" idea of protecting blacks from government discrimination. But he finds no similar intent to protect...