Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kopit's play is almost a paradigm of the burgeoning genre of "Nuclear Lit." The brain-deadening pattern lack much variation, having been set in stone in Strangelove: introduce an outsider to what one journalist termed "the subterranean world of the bomb," then lead him or her step by step through the strategy and institutions of strategic nuclear...
...sight of his red and blue lights directly in front of a neon "BEER" sign didn't improve my amateur handling of the clutch. I was stone sober but starting to feel woozy as I desperately wobbled our growling vehicle toward the exit ramp. Dave, Kevin, and Nate--still under the effects of Montreal's 18-year-old bar scene--were too drunk to notice the hovering patrol car, until his red and blues started flashing...
...Feminist Alliance has used the rape as a stepping stone to get a lot of publicity and show that they think women are treated badly," said Mark Schein, a Williams junior. "The majority of students have just viewed [the alleged rape] as something that happens...
ABSOLUTES RARELY mean anything at all. Certainly they should not form the basis of university governance. One person's idealist is another person's technocrat. One person's inviolable principle is another's stepping stone. Ideas become just only if ther community affected by them accepts them as their own. The role of modern administrators is not to impose principles, but solicit concerns and then convince the community that policies adopted satisfy those concerns are appropriate. No absolutes should exist simply because a self-perpetuating group of seven men determine the existence...
Twenty years after it tore apart the nation' s conscience, the Viet Nam War reaches the screen with searing power and immediacy. Oliver Stone' s Platoon has already earned raves from the critics and long lines at the box office. It is also detonating a fire storm of memories and debate about the U. S. fighting man in the jungles of Southeast Asia. See SHOW BUSINESS...