Word: social
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Back in New York City, Corliss avoids film-industry receptions and social contacts with actors and actresses. "Critics by nature are antisocial beasts. We dodge movie stars because we don't want to believe that those huge gorgeous creatures on the screen are real, tiny people with real, tender feelings that could be dented by an offhand joke in print." Each week he sees an average of a dozen films, usually in screening rooms but sometimes in crowded Times Square theaters. "I like to slip into theaters unnoticed. On Broadway the audience's critical comments are often more piquant than...
...starkly different -- and the conflicting images at once turned into political battle flags. To the strains of Brahms' Fourth Symphony in London's Queen Elizabeth Conference Center, Neil Kinnock, the leader of the opposition Labor Party, strode onto the podium to describe a joyless, divided Britain, an "economically and socially disabled" country afflicted with Dickensian misery. Two hours later, at Conservative Party headquarters near Westminster Abbey, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, at the helm for the past eight years, evoked a very different nation, one with "revived spirit and restored reputation," a land that could boast of being Western Europe...
...said last week, would lead Britain to have "beggars in the street and young boys on the run in the city, to people dying for lack of warmth in their own homes." The Church of England and even some patrician Tory leaders have become persistent critics of Thatcher's social policies, particularly in education and health care...
...billion, mainly through public works programs. Kinnock also stood by his party's unilateral nuclear-disarmamen t position -- even though it remains an electoral liability. The Tories charged that Labor "would abandon the defense policy followed by every British government, Labor or Conservative, since World War II." Said Social Democratic Leader Owen: "On defense, Labor remains a menace to its allies and the answer to the Russians' prayer...
...week Massachusetts became the latest state to promote unisex rates for all types of insurance (Montana was the first state to do so). Massachusetts Insurance Commissioner Peter Hiam ordered that firms based in his state even up their rates by July 1988. Says Hiam: "Massachusetts does not see any social value in making people pay different rates on the basis of gender...