Word: sufference
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Look at how people suffer from the lack of community in our society. What we have are islands of people with the same income, breeding the distrust that makes for violence and that makes for greed...
...York City-based International League for Human Rights recently led a small delegation to Nicaragua to try to answer the question, How free is a Nicaraguan not to be a Sandinista? Some members of the Roman Catholic Church, opposition political parties and labor organizations, she says, suffer "undisguised and hidden repression." Her team heard repeated accounts of arbitrary arrests and interrogations that included food and water deprivation, simulated executions, and detention in dark cells. "The country is not yet totalitarian," she says. "What we saw was a government in the process of consolidating its power...
Still, opposition parties are entitled to hold rallies, post billboards along the highways and publish newsletters, although they are subjected to government censorship. Ironically, the Sandinistas suffer some of the most heated criticism from the leftist parties. Eli Altamirano, president of the Nicaraguan Communist Party, charges, "The Sandinistas are ideologically promiscuous. They have priests, nuns, evangelicals and bourgeois in their government. It has nothing to do with Marxism-Leninism." None of the parties have achieved the popularity of the ruling F.S.L.N., and no politician has emerged as the primary opposition spokesman...
...Fool for Love demonstrated that she should be above this stuff, is, thanks to Lyne's directing techniques, able to show the whole range of angst-ridden emotions from fear to guilt-ridden pleasure. But who could fashion a believable role from a script that requires her to suffer the ignominy of being trapped atop a ferris wheel at one moment and to prance down the boardwalk with Rourke as if nothing had happened at the next...
...think on that a little. "We needed to be apart," he says finally. "At least we got it over with. We had five really good years, and the ones after that weren't so bad. Probably made better people of us. We didn't suffer any brain damage. We didn...