Word: readier
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...another at the crossroads of Independence Highway and Career Boulevard. At this intersection there are many collisions, some artistically fatal. Directors can take the small-and-noble path, which may consign them to the fringe approval of the critics. Or they can take go Hollywood. There they may find readier financing for their off-center dreams; but they may also be on the fast track to hackdom, scrounging for films chosen by studio bosses. They pay your money and they take your choice--your independence...
...homosexuality. Hence this summer's Defense of Marriage Act, which focused not on keeping heterosexuals married but on keeping homosexuals unmarried. This is a familiar pattern among conservatives. They are readier than liberals to dish out real moral sanction but tend to aim at the easy targets, the people they consider creatures from another planet: homosexuals, inner-city mothers, inner-city fathers. The linchpin of a robust moral system, in contrast, is a willingness to stigmatize people close to home, even your friends--even, in a certain theoretical sense, yourself...
With serious presidential contenders needing $20 million for the primaries alone, a candidate's most reliable friend, Phil Gramm once quipped, is "ready money." And there's none readier than what's in your own checkbook. Forbes says he is willing to spend $25 million. Perot shelled out more than $60 million...
Douglas Day Stewart's script has little use for the novel's other plot line: Hester's difficulty with her love child Pearl. But this Hester is readier to be martyr and lover than seamstress and mother. She is, you see, America's prototype feminist. (Caucasian feminist, that is--Pocahontas, in the Disney cartoon, beat Hester to the p.c. punch.) And the Rev, weak in the novel, is now a fiery film hero, deserving of the preposterous happy ending the filmmakers tack...
...done fairly soon to make life easier, people's desperation could reach the combustion point. But a visit to the island shows little evidence of imminent revolt. For now, Fidel faces no organized opposition. Despite their open verbal attacks on Castro and the communist system, the discontented seem readier to leave than to rebel; many still pin their hopes on internal reform. The question is how long the Cubans will put up with such harsh privation before taking change into their own hands...