Word: protectors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wouldn't have become associated with it." As it happens, there are plenty of similarities in plot and tone between E.T. and Gremlins: a sweet, lonely boy in a matriarchal family in a near idyllic small town meets a gentle, otherworldly creature who becomes his charge and his protector. But these comparisons are mainly for exegetes and archaeologists, for by mid-film Author Chris Columbus and Director Joe Dante have spun Gremlins off its smooth E. T. rails and launched it into the fetid backwaters of fantasyland...
...civil rights activist also pointed out that the Justice Department had adhered to its responsibility to protect civil rights until the current administration took office. Since then, he added, the department has become "the biggest offender of civil rights, not the protector...
...spoke Korres, spiritual descendant of Phidias, and so ended the council in Athens, most properly as it seemed to all, for it is best to go slowly in matters so weighty. That way one guards against error and shows respect for the past, the future and the protector of men, gray-eyed Athena. -By Kenneth M. Pierce. Reported by Mirka Gondicas/Athens
Often a battered woman has grown up with violence and accepts it as a pitiful form of caring, or at least as something inevitable in a relationship. She may feel desperately that the world is a dangerous place and that she needs a protector, even a man who beats her. Ashamed, terrified that any resistance will provoke greater violence, isolated from her family and friends, often without any means of support other than the husband, many a battered woman sinks into despairing submission, from which the only escape is eventual widowhood, her own murder (or, perhaps in a flash...
...attention to the role of ideology in Soviet military policy--an issue which, though perhaps is outside the work's scope, is impossible to divorce from any discussion of nuclear arms. Holloway, like many American officials, seems undecided on how much of Soviet action derives from its stance as protector of the socialist faith and how much from its role as super-power. In the end, he attributes too much to Merlots-Leninist doctrine and not enough to sheer Machiavellian power...