Word: suppressive
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Caught between Shining Path and a government campaign to suppress...
GEORGIAN LEADER EDUARD SHEVARDNADZE COULD barely suppress his jubilance at what he called the "embarrassing" results in the parliamentary elections. In the first balloting held in the republic since President Zviad Gamsakhurdia was forcibly deposed last January, Georgians by a majority of 95% endorsed the former Soviet Foreign Minister's uncontested bid to become chairman of a new parliament. Shevardnadze promised his new constituents that he would do everything he could "not to leave them disappointed...
Working on the premise that homosexuals have a far greater awareness of the flesh--having been taught since childhood to suppress its desires and control its longings--he began by "summoning the body," and traipsed his way through the audience, extolling the praise of one man's foot, a woman's fingers. Then, towards the end of the show, he summoned the body again. But this time, these were the fingers of a friend, trampled and broken by policemen at a gay rights rally, or the smashed arm of someone victimized in a "queer-bashing" incident...
That is largely why Bush let Saddam's army suppress the Iraqi Kurds and drive them into the mountains along the Turkish and Iranian borders, where many starved or froze to death. It was only because the Western media publicized those horrors that the Administration belatedly came to the Kurds' rescue. Along with other members of the anti-Saddam coalition, the U.S. has established an umbrella of armed force to safeguard the Iraqi Kurds above the 36th parallel. The area is now a de facto Kurdish state. It has an army and a democratically elected parliament, and it is developing...
These days, as notorious gentlemen from Rob Lowe to Clarence Thomas have proved, every scandal is a career move. Indiscretions that movie stars once paid to suppress they now discuss on Oprah and Arsenio; those modern-day analysts' couches have become celebrities' thrones. Allen the filmmaker can use this publicity; his recent movies have been flops. (An industry axiom: everybody knows Woody Allen, but nobody goes to his movies.) It is even likely that the brouhaha will boost Husbands and Wives at the box office, at least until people decide whether they like it or not. For Farrow the actress...