Word: social
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...could anyone think it helpful to impose upon the behavior of a long-lost era and a vanished social class the wisdom of modern Pop psychology? It prevents the actors from tearing into their roles with the black comic gusto that Glenn Close and John Malkovich brought to their feverish performances in Dangerous Liaisons last year. But besides spoiling the fun, this approach / blurs the work's value as a cautionary tale, capable of reminding us that motiveless malignity is a potent force in every age and one that not even Freud -- let alone humanistically inclined moviemakers -- can explain away...
Disney and Don Bluth can lead the way. Walt Disney, after all, created the genre, turning barnyard animals into superstars and a Sunday-supplement curiosity into the movie's most enduring subspecies. Bluth, a Disney renegade, showed his old masters that the cartoon possessed a social vitality for the '80s. Bluth's The Secret of NIMH was a parable on animal experimentation; An American Tail found much to say, endearingly, about melting-pot prejudice; The Land Before Time found love and death among the dinosaurs. Now Disney and Bluth have launched a welcome new Thanksgiving tradition, each producing a feature...
...Abiquiu, N. Mex. O'Keeffe was the daughter of an Irish-American farmer and a Hungarian American of aristocratic descent. As art historian Roxana Robinson discloses in this romantic but insightful biography, both strains were apparent from the beginning. The child had six siblings, and she could be highly social and convivial. But it took great effort, and she once admitted, "I don't take easily to being with people...
Such policies have evolved as the expression of a basic social value: that the traditional family, with its economic interdependence, is the foundation of a strong society. But what about a gay couple? They might be similarly dependent on each other, economically and emotionally. Yet no state in the U.S. allows them to marry legally, and nowhere are they offered the same medical, pension, tax and legal advantages as married heterosexuals...
...other major objection is a moral one. Social conservatives object to policies they see as sanctifying homosexuality and further threatening the traditional family. John R. Quinn, the Archbishop of San Francisco, was in the forefront of the fight against the proposal on that city's ballot last week to provide certain domestic-partnershi p rights to municipal workers. He called the idea a "serious blow to our society's historic commitment to supporting marriage and family life...