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See: binding, compelling, compulsory, forcible, inevitable, insistent, involuntary, mandatory, necessary, obligatory, severe, unavoidable How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The coerciveness of prepackaged femininity and the nauseous entwining of postwar American consumerism with the destruction in Vietnam inspire these montages, in which ads filled with nubile models are made to speak against themselves and lovely homes are infiltrated with shots of burning villages, napalmed peasants, and tense GIs. Although they blundered into a new type of error by imparting generality to specific cases, they benefited from the extreme-case intervention by acquiring "immunity" to the coerciveness of intuitive impact. The determination is based on whether a reasonable person under the circumstances would sense the coerciveness of the environment that Miranda was designed to protect against. |
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