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Pundit Margaret Carlson of Time pronounced it "an antidote to the zeitgeist of the '80s, when middle-aged tycoons and their acolytes could suddenly drop an inconvenient first wife without social opprobrium," and predicted the film would spark the kind of debate provoked by Thelma & Louise . The Los Angeles Times envisioned a reversal of Hollywood's bias toward male actors: "Could it be that being middle-aged and female has become a Hollywood box-office asset?"
5: "Thou shalt not kill, except when provoked.
By continuing Indonesian military rule in the territory, Habibie provoked the East Timorese into overwhelmingly rejecting his offer of autonomy within Indonesia, the paper said.
In other words apoptosis was not provoked with lipid peroxides.
Civil-rights advocates called for scrutiny of the one-year suspension, but agree that it's OK as long as the abuse that provoked her was gender-neutral.