Word: redressing
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...earnest attempt to redress a festering grievance, not as film art, that The Hanoi Hilton deserves attention. Writer-Director Lionel Chetwynd's intention is to re-create the life endured in North Viet Nam's Hoa Lo prison by American POWs, in some cases for as long as eight years. Their lot consisted of systematic degradation, maddening isolation and the grinding $ waste of years, punctuated by episodes of ghastly pain. But, presented artlessly, this is not the stuff of compelling drama. There is not enough filth in the corners, not enough ambiguity when the movie shows prisoners resisting the pressure...
...years of fellows there has been only one Hispanic," said Howard Simons, director of the Nieman Fellowship program. "We're trying to redress the imbalance...
...council's letter advocates the extended hours "because all University students, at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, would benefit from opening Widener on Sunday afternoons." In addition, the missive calls for administrative "clarification and redress" on the dormant issue...
...chunks of primetime on ABC to run counter-programming. Kris Kristofferson, who plays the show's handsome hero, will be featured in announcements touting the body. But should ABC fail to meet the U.N.'s demands, Sorenson said, the world organization may feel it necessary to seek legal redress for defamation, such as the unauthorized use of its logo...
Steinem's book also attempts to redress a sexist imbalance in the field of Marilyn mytho-biography. This is the first major book on the star written by a woman. "Nearly all of the journalistic eulogies that followed Monroe's death were written by men," Steinem writes. "So are almost all of the more than forty books that have been published about Monroe." Steinem devotes many pages to arguing with the male-written works, focusing particular attention and ire on Norman Mailer's famed bitch-goddess vision of Monroe that ignored her very human vulnerability...