Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...song with less esoteric and more social overtones is "Dance On," a scathing look at gang violence, and murder in Detroit and how it was influenced by war on television. At the end the question "What color is your money today?" is especially potent...
...past, the faculty members on the committee have differred in their views on Critical Legal Studies (CLS), a radical school of legal thought which holds that the law is not concerned with abstract values but instead reflects social and economic trends. Frug, Kennedy and Tribe were outspoken in their support of CLS adherent Assistant Professor of Law Clare Dalton's unsuccessful tenure bid. Clark has been one of the most vocal opponents of CLS at the Law School...
...imbroglio as an example of the oft-heard U.S. charge that several prosperous alliance members are "getting a free ride" on defense. As in Denmark, opposition parties elsewhere have threatened to overturn longstanding defense arrangements if they are voted into power. The British Labor Party and the West German Social Democrats, for example, oppose U.S. nuclear weapons on their territory...
...Lucas film will have vagrant charms. Davis is ingratiating. So is Julie Peters playing his wife, as patient as Penelope. Director Ron Howard (Splash, Cocoon) gets the social politics of the dwarfs' village right, but he is not adept at action scenes: some are too busy; others are botched. Kilmer tries hard in a role that might have fit Mel Gibson like an iron glove, and Whalley, teen angel of the serious British mini-series (The Edge of Darkness, The Singing Detective) is wasted as the heroine. Both Kilmer and Whalley, in fact, are curiously irrelevant to the climactic battle...
...celebrities coughed up by the Reagan era. He is a landlord: 50,000 apartments, along with other real estate. She is the self-proclaimed "queen" of his hotel chain, famous for being nasty to the help, and a walking exaggeration of every cliche about the second wife as a social type. The obvious diagnosis of what ails the Helmsleys -- greed -- doesn't explain much, either morally or practically. Few of us lack greed. And, in our economic system, there is nothing wrong with greed. A variety of diagrams and mathematical formulas is available to show how capitalism usually channels individual...