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Richard’s family was Orthodox Jewish, from Lithuania, and though the Baltimores in America were not overtly religious, the family communicated a moral code that influenced their son’s concern for the underprivileged.

Not coincidentally, many of those movies were, subtly or overtly, concerned with women’s bodies and forms of sexist repression.

“To use a phrase, it ‘hits different’ in the States, where it’s more overtly aligned with people’s experiences of how the healthcare industry works,” he says.

If “democracy” has all along been nothing more than a scam rigged to benefit the powerful, then the solution lies in blatant, shameless and overtly infantile version of one-man rule.

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Aster is careful not to pass judgment or overtly proselytize, favoring a mode of storytelling that gets as close to the truth as possible while leading with objectivity.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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