Word: topic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Killing Fields shares with David Lean's A Passage to India the distinction of being the most talked about and least seen film in recent memory. Start with a semi-obscure literary topic tinged with the Oriental mystery (Schanberg wrote an article about his efforts to find Dith Pran, and E.M. Forester's novel has been appeared in God only knows how many Cafe Pamplona discussions), favorable advance press in the right places, and a restricted New York-LA-Chicago distribution, and you have the makings of a film with big, big Harvard appeal...
...brief, Tribe argued that "the only way to be safe is either to steer clear of the whole topic or whenever the subject comes up, to proclaim complete aversion to homosexuals...
These well-intentioned attempts to legitimize the topic, however, have carried a price. The statistical evidence she uses to support popular feminist views of a women's vote may bring the study of women's political behavior into the circle of legitimate research topics, but it makes for convoluted writing at times...
...topic was sexism in politics, and it was appropriate for the audience that had invited her to speak on the subject: the Women's Forum, a group of New York City's most influential women in business and politics. United Nations Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick claimed that "sexism is alive in the U.N in the U.S. Government... in American politics." As evidence she noted the reported comments of unnamed White House critics who had contended that she was "too temperamental to occupy a higher office." That, she argued, was a "classical sexist charge." She complained that she has been...
...from one of his Administration's most staunchly held foreign strategies. In an International Human Rights Day address, Reagan paused in a litany of familiar themes (the Soviets' "barbaric war" in Afghanistan, Iran's persecution of the Baha'i religious minority) to broach a surprise topic. "The U.S. has said on many occasions that we view racism with repugnance," he asserted. He then confessed "our grief over the human and spiritual cost of apartheid in South Africa...