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...myself." A year later the suit was withdrawn, and the couple reconciled. For a time the Griffins kept their children out of school and educated them at home, although both enrolled in a private academy last September. Griffin had no known private or public involvement with Pensacola's strident antiabortion factions until a month or so before he murdered Gunn...
...recent speech at Harvard, Dr. Khallid Muhammad, a member of the Nation of Islam, unilaterally condemned all whites. His views represent those of a strident group of activists which has preached Black supremacy, the deviancy of Jews and the innate iniquity of whites, all, ostensibly, in the name of faith. The faith they claim to represent is Islam...
...PROBLEM WITH FEEL-GOOD MOVIES is that they browbeat the viewer with their strident optimism; like a Stalinist nanny, they shout, "Feel good!" Such a one is STRICTLY BALLROOM, an audience hit at several festivals. In this Australian musical comedy, West Side Story meets Saturday Night Fever, and everyone -- especially the thoughtful moviegoer -- ends up exhausted. On a ballroom dance floor, director Baz Luhrmann sets in motion all manner of human and cinematic gargoyles. You've never seen so many fisheye close-ups of goofy faces caked with bad makeup. Watching the film is like being condemned to perform...
Opposition to the Core has not been restrictedto the program's inflexibility and the quality ofofferings. Some of the most strident criticism hasbeen aimed at the very shape and model of theCore...
...opponent of the death penalty and you can't beat me in an argument then you're not going to beat Justice Rehnquist, or Justice Scalia. So I make the argument for the death penalty and try to make you come up with better arguments. If you're a strident feminist who believes that convicting accused rapists is more important than civil liberties, you're going to have to make that argument to me successfully. I'm not just going to pat you on the head and say, "Nice argument...