Word: sicklied
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Spiderwoman), this black comedy chronicling the adventures of Yuppie Everyman Griffin Dunne as he tries to extract himself from a darkened SoHo should have been a shoe-in for nominations in the Best Director, Best Actor and Best Actress category. What happened? Were all the members of the Academy sick the night that this film was screened...
...sustaining Botha's rule is reminiscent of that of the German liberals towards Bismarck's regime: they are a "loyal opposition" which is unwilling to risk the loss of its social privilege by making real alliances for democracy with the majority. By being willing to participate in Botha's sick charade of democracy, they undermine the possibility of creating the South Africa dreamed of in the Freedom Charter of the African National Congress (1955): a land "which belongs to all who live in it, Black and white, in which no government can justly claim authority unless it is based...
...President Marcos is quite sick," Corsino said yesterday. "We don't now how long he will last. The time for a peaceful, non-violent transition...
...CHALLENGER was different; it belonged to the ideal world of technology and TV where everything works, not the real world of warts and wounded people. The shock of death where it is least expected was traumatic for a pampered bourgeois culture--a society in which the old and the sick are pushed out of sight and out of mind and to which the unreality of video violence and fatality is but an image, which can be erased with the flip of a switch. Here was full-color, live video death--the real thing, something that did not disappear with...
...least Dr. Wacker has his priorities straight. Wacker, unlike Dershowitz, has taken a sacred professional oath to heal the sick, so he'll be accepting calls and mending the wounds of the ill as a dedicated physician should...