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...sources of faith in order to determine what is right and wrong. All you have to do is go look at the medical evidence. And as citizens of this land, all you have to go look to are our founding documents and you see that the notion of the wanton taking of innocent human late, from conception to nine months is first and abysmal affront to a moral conscience...
Terrorism kills moderation, trust, courage. It poisons society and invites the response of repression, which can breed further wanton violence. Could there be a scarier pronouncement for 1985 than the one made by the I.R.A. after the failed Thatcher murder? "We have only to be lucky once. You will have to be lucky always...
Even some advocates of capital-punishment laws are uneasy about actually imposing the penalty. Oregon voters, who abolished the death penalty by referendum in 1964, reimposed it the same way last month, but only in cases involving wanton murderers who would otherwise pose a "threat to society." The Colorado legislature this year passed a tough new capital-punishment statute co-sponsored by State Senator Ray Powers. Even so, Powers declares, "we're just not a death-penalty state like, say, Florida, and this law isn't going to make...
Sandrine Bonnaire has a peasant sensuality; naked, she looks like the figurehead on a pirate ship. The camera closes in on the stolid planes of her face, and voilà a deep dimple appears incongruously in her left cheek. From wanton to elfin in the flick of an adolescent whim-such are the compelling mysteries of personality. Bonnaire stars as the teen-age Suzanne in this doggedly unsentimental French film from Writer-Director Maurice Pialat. Suzanne's family has stayed together by corseting all hostilities. Then she discovers the power of her own erotic impulse. Overnight, Daddy...
...action revolves around the struggle between the Puritans and a wanton group of women whom they accuse of witchcraft. Conflict brews when the Puritans enlist the aid of a skeptical angel, and a devil decided to champion the women's cause...