Word: seenes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Almodovar says his movies are about the "five essential themes: death, liberty, equality, beauty and, of course, love." Scanning Dark Habits (1983), one finds not love but revenge. It is your basic anticlerical Latin comedy: Reform School Girls set in a convent. The film can be seen as Almodovar's payback for a Catholic education "full of hypocrisy -- you can't learn by being terrorized." But the convent's mother superior isn't kidding when she tells the chanteuse, "My only sin is to love you too much," for that is the only sin and salvation of any Almodovar heroine...
...closer he gets to this goal. Though he is running against three former Congressmen and one state party chairman, all white, he is clearly in the lead. That has put the party in a bind: his election would alienate many whites, but a last-minute defeat would be seen as an abandonment of party principles. Because of his connection to Jackson and, yes, his color, Brown's talents as a cajoler and conciliator have been thoroughly tested during this campaign. If he succeeds in becoming the symbolic leader and video face of a party that has won the White House...
...said, "We hear what you're saying about steroids, but could you tell us which ones to use?" Rick of Los Angeles takes 40 mg of the chemicals daily, but insists, "I'm being careful. I'm taking what I think a doctor would prescribe." Has he seen one? "I will when...
...barrage of scary rhetoric and hyperbole began not long after young homosexual men started dying by the thousands in the early 1980s. Dire warnings of an AIDS apocalypse came not only from headline writers but also, uncharacteristically, from scientists and health specialists. Declared one: "We have not seen anything of this magnitude that we can't control except nuclear bombs." In 1987 Otis Bowen, then Secretary of Health and Human Services, said AIDS would make black death -- the bubonic plague that wiped out as much as a third of Europe's population in the Middle Ages -- "pale by comparison...
...black-and-white newsreels to make landmark events feel as though they happened in the real world and epigrammatic statements sound as though they were said by real people. One of many moments that make War and Peace television at its best: a 1946 United Nations disarmament conference is seen considering a U.S. plan for international controls that would prevent the Soviet Union from developing its own bomb. The proposal comes to a vote. It needs unanimous endorsement. One delegate after another says "Yes," until first the Polish, then the Soviet, delegate is heard from. A 37-year-old Andrei...