Word: shamed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Stephan and Abigail Thernstrom, who choose to magnify gains blacks have made and minimize the sizable gaps that remain. Black progress has been neglected, they tell us, while poverty, unemployment, welfare dependency and crime have been exaggerated in order to feed "the mix of black anger and white shame and guilt that sustains the race-based social policies implemented since the late 1960s...
...damaged, calling it "the biggest regret of my life." He became reclusive, living out of a small, sparsely furnished apartment in Manhattan. One year he lost money. He said later, "I underwent a serious change in my personality during that period. There was a large element of guilt and shame in my emotional makeup." Therapy helped, but philanthropy was the cure...
...bleak northeastern mountains of North Korea, where there is never much food, people are starving to death in slow motion--alone, abandoned, far from television's electronic eye. Their government cannot help them and does not want the world to witness its shame...
They are a marvelously mixed lot, variously overweight, uptight, overage and ungraceful, and they are moved by a nice mix of persuasive motives in Simon Beaufoy's unforced script. Director Peter Cattaneo poises their conflict between need and shame lightly but firmly, and his actors--especially Mark Addy, whose Dave struggles touchingly with flab and impotence--achieve a similarly persuasive balance between the comedy and pathos of self-exposure. Will they ultimately dare the full monty (Britspeak for removing their G-strings) at the conclusion of their first show? That's eyes-only information. But to make an unembarrassing movie...
...possibly more trusting, than it once was, nothing much happens, dramatically speaking, in Career Girls. It is less scarring than Leigh's Naked, less poignant than Secrets & Lies. But still it offers a behavioral truthfulness and a passionate engagement with the despairs of dailiness that put most movies to shame...