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Now, as for Hollywood's penchant for releasing the "classy" movies as close to Oscar time as the rules and the calendar allow, I agree that the ravages of memory have a lot to do with it.
The pipeline's negative environmental impact and the ravages of the Valdez spill are downplayed.
Kept home from school, he becomes an unblinking observer of the world around him--his mother's adultery, the rise of Nazism, Kristallnacht , the invasion of Poland, the ravages of war, and after the war, the "economic miracle."
Attorney General Health Report Talking to Wolf Blitzer in the Late Edition studios, Janet Reno shows the ravages of her Parkinson's Disease.
It "might have been more honestly called Hilly Buttocks I Have Known ," says James Wolcott in the Wall Street Journal . Those who don't dismiss it as salacious gossip laud its revelations about gay New York writers, especially the poet James Merrill, and its depiction of the ravages of AIDS.