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Bronson suggested that the only way to acknowledge the problems faced by children from affluent families is "with a sardonic wink." In my book The Price of Privilege, I reported on disproportionately high rates of depression, anxiety and substance abuse among children of the wealthy, rates documented by leading social scientists and high enough to meet the Centers for Disease Control's definition of epidemic. A broken child is a broken child, no matter what the parents' financial resources...
...achievement for Academy Awards consideration are expressly forbidden." To get around that rule, studios sponsor parties disguised as events; academic-like "symposiums" with the cast and crew and "lectures" from stars and directors. Thus, Tuesday night's event was intended to honor Stone for the Hollywood Film Festival. Wink, wink...
...Aboriginal Australia. This is cleverly suggested in "Prism" by placing her cabinet of glass-beaded native flora and fauna, Understorey, 1999-2004, in the anteroom to a gallery of work by mainly women artists from the Central Australian settlement of Utopia, whose riotous desert-flower colorfields appear to wink at Hall's work...
...because it's on the form in front of him, just above my picture. Then I shake the hand of a judge. I walk back to my seat. I wait for the fanfare. The marshall eventually tells me I need to leave. But he says it with a wink. Outside the courtroom there's a crowd of people with pens and paper, who I think must be press wanting an interview. Actually they want me to register to vote. How would it look, after all, if the 300 millionth American - even the unacknowleged secret 300 millionth American - did not vote...
...enemy" wherever they can be found - at marketplaces, in offices, at homes. While the state still pays lip service to weeding out violators of law and order, the NDPI and other neo-Nazis know only too well that ethnic cleansing will be greeted with a nod and a wink...