Word: respectable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...film, humor to relieve the pressures of a life that revolves obsessively around their work. Their professional style is based on the belief that the producer-director team that works harder than anyone else and knows in detail every aspect of the production is bound to command respect. Cameron can be demanding on the set. Recalls Reiser: "Working with him wasn't like a frolic." Says Henriksen, who has completed three locations with Cameron: "He is the bride in every wedding and the corpse at every funeral." Most of the couple's decisions are mutual, except when he is staging...
...revealing views of him at work. Whether he is steering his orchestra through a demanding passage during rehearsal ("I need super concentration here . . . like you were driving in heavy traffic") or attending to business in his Lincoln Center office, every scene seems to define the man and command our respect...
...poor. Carter has done previous Habitat stints in New York City, but this was the first such outing for Colson, now a born- again Christian and founder-head of Prison Fellowship Ministries. He finds the ex-President a "slave driver" who is "very similar to Richard Nixon in that respect, although for a different cause. This one doesn't end us up in jail -- just at hard labor...
...treat them as sexual playthings for men. The problem: how to take an effective stance without seeming prudish or giving comfort to the antifeminist right. Gloria Steinem has tried to promote a distinction between pornography, which should be opposed, and erotica, healthy sexual materials marked by mutuality and respect, presumably the kind of material men should be interested in, but usually aren't. Some feminists see porn as repellent but harmless masturbatory material for shut-ins, or as an expression of anxiety by males who are threatened by the women's movement. But some of the more militant feminists take...
...study their own culture in school; the colonists' culture was the only legitimate one. Literature by outsiders of a particular society can show us injustice and prejudice, but it can also offer hope for pluralism and reform. By distilling human suffering and triumph, literature can teach compassion and respect for human potential," Pinede told Glamour...