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To be effective, all HIV interventions should include an analysis of how stigma functions, how it enhances dominance and subordination in society, how it is that some win and others lose in the pernicious struggle for pre-eminence, and why it is that such a social scheme perversely flourishes in the first place [16].
There's something perversely reassuring about a great beauty who had it all--and still ended up a drug-addled wretch manipulated by a Machiavellian butler (Richard Chamberlain).
Critics call this courtroom thriller about a lawyer (John Travolta) on a crusade against a polluting company "perversely undramatic" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). Some say a miscast Travolta fails to convey the finer points of his character's internal struggles.
I'd like to volunteer that these books have drawn some perversely unsatisfying combination reviews, most notably in the Sept. 6 New York Times , which devoted the weight of 30 column inches (by my pica rule) to admiring Celebration, U.S.A. , except for one paragraph spent denouncing The Celebration Chronicles on the astonishing grounds that Mr. Ross is a single man in an apartment without a mortgage or children, and thus had no "real stake" equipping him to comment.
Perversely, Weld lost the ideology/competence battle by winning the drugs/morality battle.