Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sure, over Jesse Jackson's failure to receive the respect and deference he craves and deserves. Will he, in the end, yield gracefully or grudgingly to the inevitability of Dukakis and Lloyd Bentsen? Could the Dukakis-Jackson rift result in a lasting schism along racial lines? Such tensions are serious, but a party built around uneasy coalitions should be used to them...
...film. The ministers, who had not seen the film but had read a version of the screenplay, charged that it portrays Jesus "as a mentally deranged and lust-driven man." Said the Rev. Lloyd John Ogilvie of the First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood: "It is the most serious misuse of film craft in the history of filmmaking." An ad placed by 61 Christians in the Hollywood Reporter declared, "Our Lord was crucified once on the cross. He doesn't deserve to be crucified a second time on celluloid...
...sell th' ranch from under th' other's nose--Weston t' a tacky nightclub owner named Ellis (Caroline Bicks), Ella t' a slick lawyer who's th' head zombie (Ethan Mintz). This sounds like th' set-up for a farce, n' it would be if everyone wasn't so serious n' aware of th' future about t' crash down on 'em like a watermelon on an anthill...
Bush, who once served at the U.N. and thus knows whereof he speaks, will argue that Dukakis' faith in international law is naive. There is something quite unnerving, say Dukakis' critics, about the idea of a President who has actually read the Rio Treaty. A more serious argument against multilateralism is that it can degenerate into a de facto isolationism; in a dirty and dangerous world, the U.S. could be paralyzed if it flinched whenever its allies were reticent...
Lipsig gets very serious about the civic virtues of liability suits. "But for lawsuits brought by personal-injury lawyers, the Ford Motor Co. would still be making defective Pintos, which burst into flames when struck from behind." He describes the firm he founded 62 years ago, which has now become Lipsig, Sullivan & Liapakis, in terms that would make the Lone Ranger blush: "Champion of the weak, defender of the poor, the equalizer in the arena of litigation...