Word: spites
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spite of my belief in the First Amendment, the cover story on pornography [April 5] upset me greatly. The porn boom has reached levels that are totally antifemale, antifreedom, anti-love. The result: dehumanization...
...touch of apocalypticism is an appropriate conclusion to this idiosyncratic book. The accompanying nostalgia is something else. It is generally agreed that the human animal appears to have evolved because of hardship, not in spite of it, but Ardrey seems almost too wistful for the times when we survived by the skin of our fangs. R.Z. Sheppard
...spite of Mazursky's apparent intention, Sarah emerges as the emotional center of the film. In her dissatisfaction with Larry and her resentment of her own humdrum life, Ellen Greene's Sarah seems more honest than the rest, a woman hopelessly caught in the emage of an era. Her final rejection of Larry tips the balance against him, leaving him free to take one last, self-conscious look at his Brooklyn tenements before fading out into the image of the sun in the west...
...spite of Lucky Lee's benediction, however, the Indiana senator had finished with a disappointing 5 per cent of the vote, six places behind the short gray-haired man who was shouting in the other room that tonight was just the beginning...
...poisoning does occur in spite of ail precautions, Hartman recommends emptying the stomach as quickly as possible, either mechanically-with a finger in the throat-or with a nonprescription drug called ipecac. Says he: "That is basically the only antidote to any kind of plant poisoning." The next step: rush the victim to the doctor or hospital...