Word: resistance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...share his assumptions that are imposing their opinions, not on an audience as the protesters did with slogans and red paint, but on innocent civilians with bullets, bombs and machetes. Katz would have us start to apply ethical and civil standards only at the point when people begin to resist the perpetration of this kind of brutality. As such, Katz's interpretation of "toleration" inadvertantly serves the cause of violence...
Bret Saberhagen's teammate, iconoclastic Relief Pitcher Dan Quisenberry, cannot ordinarily resist such deep discussion, but he has a simple view of Gooden's class. "Joseph Heller used the phrase in a book title: Something Happened. That's it. About every decade or so in pitching, a little group shows up with something special, a secret recipe. They have something a lot of guys with great arms never get. And this time, whatever it is, Gooden got most of it. It's not fair...
Despite its moralizing, the film moves along quite well with the pace of a thriller and occasional elements of a gangster flick. Except for a few moments of sentimentality when Johnny tries to resist a regression to his former "bad boy" ways, Laundrette sports all the signs of a low-budget masterpiece...
...icons of feminism, this reading is unlikely to change. She always denied it, with asperity. But then, she had to make her way in a world more prudish than our own, and one infinitely less receptive to the seriousness of women artists. One way to resist such pressures was to emphasize the formal and botanical over the symbolic and sexual. "I am not a woman painter," she once declared in a famous statement; her life's work was a sustained manifesto against second- class aesthetic citizenship...
ENFORCING CIVIL RIGHTS laws has not been a priority for the Reagan Administration. Since kicking off its campaign by defending the right of Bob Jones University to resist federal affirmative action policies, the Reagan Justice Department has chalked up a dismal record of avoiding prosecutions under federal civil rights laws...