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...only does he unfairly exploit this real and sensitive issue as a cheap emotional trigger, but he is so confident with this ruse that he neglects to actually personify the evil at hand. With forced and belabored "filmmaking," he painfully portrays the anguished and horrid plight of the Africans so as to equate any and all adversaries they might have, whether they be Spanish slave traders, greedy British sailors or the American legal system--which he only later in the movie realizes is actually defending them. His treatment seems to raise a long, accusatory finger at somebody, but doesn...

Author: By Jonathan B. Dinerstein, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Long, Soggy, Overwrought 'Amistad' Plays Heavily on White liberal Guilt | 12/12/1997 | See Source »

...forbidding and dangerous than any thermonuclear device, it ought to be allowed to wield that weapon. It must, however, exercise the utmost caution in the use of that weapon so that the rampant tide of current events, the Curleys and Woodwards, does not unduly influence the pulling of the trigger...

Author: By Michael M. Rosen, | Title: Clearing the Underbrush | 12/2/1997 | See Source »

...Monday, flying at a much lower altitude than the spy plane, which cruises at 90,000 ft. An Iraqi missile attack on the U-2 or its fighter escorts could dissolve Russian, French and Chinese opposition to the use of force--and give America a reason to pull the trigger. To deliver that punch, a formidable armada was assembling: the carriers Nimitz and George Washington (which began steaming in from the Mediterranean last Friday), backed by more than a dozen cruisers, destroyers, guided-missile frigates and attack subs capable of delivering 100 strike planes and 600 cruise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FACING DOWN A DESPOT | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

With Harvard leading 14-0, Penn mounted a scoring drive that landed it at the Harvard 27-yard line. But facing a fourth-and-four, Bagnoli pulled the trigger and it backfired...

Author: By Jamal K. Greene, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: After Waiting For a Decade, Title Arrives | 11/17/1997 | See Source »

...change to the language requirement could potentially affect how admissions applicants plan their high school Advanced Placement courses and how undergraduates arrange their schedules, and could trigger fluctuations in language course enrollment...

Author: By Chana R. Schoenberger, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: EPC Leads Academic Reform | 11/5/1997 | See Source »

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