Word: appealling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nationwide Study on Female Sexuality (1976) and The Hite Report on Male Sexuality (1981) together earned the coolly glamorous author $2.5 million. The new tome, Women and Love, a Cultural Revolution in Progress (Knopf; $24.95), is characteristically grandiose in scope, murky in methodology -- and right on target for commercial appeal. Having spent seven years analyzing a survey of the views of some 4,500 American women, Hite has concluded that they are fed up with the male of the species. "What is going on right now in the minds of women is a large-scale cultural revolution," writes Hite. "Over...
DEATH PENALTY. There are 32 death-row prisoners around the country who were younger than 18 when they committed their crimes. In early November the court will consider whether capital punishment is permissible in such cases when it hears the appeal of a convicted killer who was 15 at the time of the crime...
...organizational damage is minor compared to the way Dukakis' carefully polished image has been tarnished. Reserved to the point of aloofness, the Governor is no charisma candidate. His principal appeal is his reputation as an efficient manager, and he has been pushing that appeal for all it is worth. For example, Dukakis has derided Ronald Reagan for being dangerously unaware of what the White House staff was doing during the Iran-contra affair, yet in the first crisis of his campaign, the Governor appeared ignorant of what his own campaign staff had been up to. If Dukakis had fired Sasso...
Judge Bason has not yet set damages, and the Justice Department, which denies any wrongdoing, plans to appeal the decision. Hamilton hopes to receive as much as $5.4 million from the Government and to use the money to revive Inslaw...
...cricketers who inadvertently visited South Africa, or the possible viability of various tentative two-mile stretches of motorway can easily be elaborated upon until they assume the nature of compulsive interests. The variety of briefs and letter that can be written upon such topics is legion and easily will appeal to the budding intellectual...