Word: function
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Quite simply, General Jaruzelski wants to de-legalize the spirit and determination of the Polish people. Since December, Solidarity has continued to function underground, distributing leaflets, keeping the structure of the union intact, planning for the future. Although Solidarity was suspended, the hope was there that it might someday be allowed to resume its activities. Jaruzelski is trying to crush that hope...
Appearing at such a function would have been unthinkable for a national candidate not long ago, and even today gay rights is a subject so highly charged that most politicians would prefer to stay in the closet on the issue. "Sure we weighed the pros and cons," a Mondale aide says. "But you can't sneak around on any issue any more...
...Wilhelmina Wiggins Fernandez as the diva, gives the insecure prima donna an amusingly American French accent, an appropriate haughtiness of manner, and a crystalline singing voice. Thuy An Luu and Richard Bohringer (as Alba and her boyfriend) are very good at behaving strangely, which appears to be their primary function...
...ultimate irony of the prison system, which I help administer, is that we are confining increasing numbers of individuals who could not function in our heterogeneous, competitive, heterosexual society that tests our ability to make decisions each day. To solve the problem, we place these offenders in a homogeneous, boring, homosexual environment in which most decisions are made for them. Then we turn them out into the world and are outraged that they fail to make...
...withering enfilade of clichés, is Ben Gazzara as an officer with no unit, no fixed duties and an inexplicable relationship to the general that permits him to witness all sorts of unedifying carnage. He has an estranged wife (rather gamely played by Jacqueline Bisset), whose function it is to become a refugee so that we can see what havoc was wreaked on the civilian population by the Communist invaders. One has not seen a heroine's hairdo stay so splendidly in place, no matter what her travail, since the 1940s. The $46 million did not go into...