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...starkest illustration of this paradox, on an immediate level and by my contemporaries, is captured in the following exchange...
Classically trained and sitcom-bred, Hanks knows that the starkest drama can always use a leavening of wit. For most of the film, he underplays Forrest's reactions at a level somewhere between a fretful deadpan and the rural slyness of the early Andy Griffith. So when he releases his feelings at the end (when questions of fatherhood and family traits are involved), the scene gushes like a geyser...
...infant-mortality rate leveled off at 9.7 deaths per 1,000 births in 1989. It now stands at twice the rate of Japan and below that of 23 other countries, including less affluent ones like Spain and Singapore. More troubling, infant mortality remains one of the nation's starkest measures of the separation between blacks and whites: twice as many black babies as white die within their first year...
With the release of these data, a debate once cluttered by factual uncertainty is now presented in its starkest terms: Harvard admits a large number of substantially less qualified students on the basis of their skill on the playing field or, to quote J.S. Mill, "merely for having taken the trouble to be born...
...taxes and raises income taxes for high income brackets. The plan would eliminate the "bubble" that taxes income over $194,00 less than income over $71,900--a clearly inequitable part of our tax system. It is a plan that puts the partisan debate over the budget in the starkest terms: which party is willing to throw the government into insolvency to protect the few who profited the most from the excesses of the 1980s...