Word: repression
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...made her film debut nine years ago as a student opposing Hitler in Verhoeven's The White Rose. As Sonja she is greatly winning, and the film bathes in her saucy radiance. She whistles when Sonja is happy, and when the crusade finally turns her way, she can't repress an exuberant yodel. Sonja wants to be Joan of Arc, but she's really Nancy Drew, doggedly sleuthing until she cracks a dark mystery. She can tolerate everything -- the aged Reichmongers cloaked in propriety, the goons who threaten her children -- everything but acceptance. When the town finally acknowledges her achievements...
...indeed continues to say that all theatre is but the striving to assume the Other--to repress some aspect of the One, the accentuation of other aspects...
...using the current upheaval to underscore one reason for the Arab-Israeli conflict -- the bellicosity and treacherousness of its radical neighbors -- while obscuring another -- Israeli intransigence and expansionism. As long as Israel refuses to budge from any of the occupied territory and as long as it continues to repress the Palestinians who live there, Israeli policy will be a source of instability; and the U.S., as Israel's friend and guardian, will pay a price in its ability to deal with Arabs of all stripes, moderates as well as radicals...
...adds that even if the U.S. does nothing, the hardliners cannot repress liberalizing forces indefinirely. "That kind of social power can be restrained, oppressed--but not forever...
...trial when a jury determines what her father did on the afternoon of Sept. 22, 1969, when Susan, 8, did not return home from playing. Two months later, Susan's decomposed body was discovered near Crystal Springs Reservoir. Did little Eileen Franklin actually see her father murder Susan and repress it for two decades? Could her mind be playing tricks on her -- or worse, could she be getting revenge on the father who once doted on her but abandoned her when she was 14 to go live with another woman and her children...