Word: subjection
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...focus on unemployment rather than deficit reduction. But the compromise only went so far. While France was able to pry some concessions from the talks, Germany's position on strict budgetary guidelines was entrenched after it was agreed that member nations which run up large budget deficits will be subject to punitive fines. But with Germany's unemployment the highest it has been since World War II, there is considerable speculation that even it may be forced to eventually advocate a looser interpretation of the guidelines governing deficit reduction...
...notion that a film's look and tone can be its subject is, well, foreign to Hollywood directors, for whom the basic elements are a propulsive story and some slambang special effects. But as Chen Kaige shows in the humid, tumid Temptress Moon, image is all. Reuniting the stars (Hong Kong's Leslie Cheung and the mainland's Gong Li) of his 1993 Farewell My Concubine, Chen paints a glamorous portrait of drugs and decadence in 1920s China. The leaders of today's China, addicted to the old narcotic of Maoism, may have seen the film as an unflattering mirror...
Like all great wits, from Oscar Wilde to Gore Vidal, Thompson saw that a pose was more compelling than a personality, not least because it was more consistent. Thus 30 years before he was the defining "gonzo" subject of four biographies and a Hollywood movie, Thompson was a legend in his own mind, playing himself with mean authority. "I've dropped from 190 pounds to 170," he wrote as a teenager, "become a terrible case of nerves, become addicted to coffee--drinking about 20 cups a day--and had to give up cigarettes when I got up to 4 packs...
Your story on birth defects in Brownsville, Texas [SOCIETY, May 26], did not reflect the letter General Motors sent to CNN [while it was preparing its program on this subject]. General Motors has deep sympathy for families affected by neural birth defects; however, we did not cause the defects. The weight of legitimate, recognized medical and scientific opinion clearly established that GM's maquiladora operations in Matamoros, Mexico [across the border from Brownsville], did not cause or contribute to these tragic birth defects. Moreover, GM has made significant progress in improving our environmental performance, practices and procedures in Mexico. More...
What drove Tony was the prospect of creating journalism with all the life and immediacy of great fiction and the additional power of truth. He wanted to show America to itself so vividly as to spur the national conscience. It worked too. Every subject he wrote about remains lodged in the mind through the personification that he found for it, from Linda Fitzpatrick, the suburban girl who became fatally involved with the late-1960s counterculture, to Rachel Twymon, the Job-like Boston-ghetto mother in Common Ground. They may be gone now, but they're still alive in Tony...