Word: logic
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...close proximity with the massively knowing Carmine. A street-dumb kid is just what Carmine needs for one of his nefarious schemes and might also be, as he sees it, just the thing for his spirited daughter (Penelope Ann Miller). But the film defies both convenient description and conventional logic, and in fact it gets into desperate expositional troubles toward the end. This is a movie one loves for its incidental pleasures, not its ultimate intentions, whatever they...
...after all, a Jewish state. A stranger proffers hard-line Israeli logic: "Look, wars have consequences. This is a violent and dislocating century that has created millions of refugees all over the world. There are more than 200 million Arabs in the Middle East and North Africa, occupying 5 million sq. mi. There are 3.8 million Israeli Jews on a tiny sliver of land. The Arabs have tried in war after war to destroy Israel. The Jews have prevailed. What do you expect from them? Besides, what law of history says that a people aspiring to be a nation will...
This skeptic makes the gloomy bet that viewers will defy logic and trust Ghost. Just as Field of Dreams evoked tears over a game of catch with a dead father, Ghost will touch moviegoers with its heavenly message that love can raise the dead...
...abortions are at stake here -- less than 1% of the 1.6 million abortions performed annually result from rape or incest -- yet the pro-life movement is determined to fight over each one. The movement insists that its position springs from religious beliefs that allow no compromise. Indeed, the harsh logic of the abortion argument makes the exception for rape and incest vulnerable to a charge of hypocrisy. If all fetal life is sacred, as pro-lifers insist, there should be no distinction between pregnancies that result from consensual sex and those that result from force. Otherwise, bearing a child becomes...
...GREEN LIGHT FOR RED LIGHTS? When AIDS struck San Francisco, city authorities closed many of the gay bathhouses. In France, land of Descartes and Voltaire, a different logic prevails: AIDS has prompted a call to reopen the brothels, which have been banned since 1946. The idea comes from Michele Barzach, a gynecologist and feminist who gained renown in 1986 when she became Health Minister in the government of Jacques Chirac. Now a deputy mayor of Paris, Barzach has not abandoned her support for women's rights. But she argues that the only way to keep AIDS...