Word: untouchedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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For screenwriter Paul Schrader, the taxi driver is a metaphor for modern, urban man. The taxi driver will go anywhere for money, and is forced to see everything, all the degredation and cruelty men are capable of, but always with the understanding that he will remain outside, uninvolved and untouched...
The movie version of Cuckoo 's Nest is faithful to the external events of the novel−no complaints there. The tro ble is that it betrays no awareness that the events are subject to multiple interpretations. Jack Nicholson plays Mc Murphy as an unambiguously charming figure, a victim...
As a result, the country is in a shambles. Only about 100 doctors are left in a nation twice the size of France with a population of 6 million people. The economy of what had been the second richest nation in black Africa (after Nigeria) is in ruins. In 1974...
One key to understanding the contrast between Angolan chaos and Mozambican stability lies in the divergent pattern of Portuguese colonization in the two countries. In Mozambique Portuguese economic penetration was restricted to the coastal cites, leaving the agrarian interior relatively untouched. Frelimo was therefore able to mobilize the entire peasantry...
The victims can be almost anybody. While the preponderance of rape victims are young women between 10 and 29 years old, Brownmiller cites a D.C. General Hospital report which lists ages from 15 months to 82 years. We are all vulnerable; those who claim otherwise are foolhardy. Having grown up...