Word: aspect
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...very existence of the archives is another key to why this is such a fascinating book: the Rockefellers are a family totally obsessed with itself. They record everything. They fund major studies of themselves. In college, they write their theses about some aspect of the dynastic history. And at least since the first John D. made the family fortune, the major theme of each Rockefeller's life seems to have been figuring out where he or she fits into the scheme...
...most pervasive aspect of the disease is denial; anorexics' denial of their hunger, to themselves and to others, is extreme. They deny that they have any emotional or physical problems. While on ritualized and limited diets they are apt to suffer from digestive problems, but they deny they are ill and avoid seeing doctors who might force them to confront their self-starvation...
...city's leaders have also remained curiously silent about another aspect of the beating--one attacker's use of an American flag as a weapon in their assault on Landsmark. If the flag is a symbol of America, their silence on this issue will only lend support to a particularly offensive form of desecration...
...startling aspect of porn is its new social acceptability. Prodigious Linda (Deep Throat) Lovelace is an ordinary topic of surburban conversation and a cover subject for Esquire. Superstud Harry Reems, at 28 a veteran of 400 porn movies, has had to dodge his fans on the street. Porn Star Johnny Holmes has 37 fan clubs, and Writer Gay Talese says an esoteric cult has grown up around Leather Princess Bettie Page, whose photos "are collected and traded across the country like you and I did with baseball cards." Prestigious Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass., honored Penthouse Publisher Bob Guccione...
...13th century blade that Dr. Compton bought from a job lot offered by a Midwestern gun dealer. The sword, which had been looted from its shrine in Kyushu by a G.I. and has since been restored to Japan as a gift, is considered by Ogawa Morihiro "perfect in every aspect among all the existing national treasure blades." At first sight, it is difficult to imagine that the sword was finished by a contemporary of Giotto, a quarter of a century before Dante began writing the Divine Comedy...