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“I’m thinking politically today,” says Elisabeth McKeon, 31, who was planning on grabbing “The Great Dictator,” “A Face in the Crowd” and Todd Haynes’ “Safe.”

The plan, if approved, would represent a fundamental retraction of the federal government’s longtime role in helping families with young children have a healthy start in the critical early years of life, said Elisabeth Wright Burak, who studies child health policy at the Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy’s Center for Children and Families.

An industry veteran, Moore had an impressive awards season run, winning the acting prize at the Golden Globes, the Critics Choice Awards and the Screen Actors Guild Awards for her performance as Elisabeth Sparkle in “The Substance,” a film about an actor filled with so much self-loathing that she takes a drug called “the substance” to create a younger version of herself.

Elisabeth Semel, a professor of law at UC Berkeley and founding director of the Berkeley Law Death Penalty Clinic, said it is “elusive and slippery” to pin down what are the most egregious crimes, worthy of death.

Buoying “The Handmaid’s Tale” in its first season, other than Elisabeth Moss’ wrenching performance as June, was the misguided idea that the show’s dystopia could never happen here, regardless of how bad things looked at the outset of Donald Trump’s first four-year term.