Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pornography in the feminist view is not a question of good or bad, false or true, edifying or pleasant, but rather of power and powerlessness," MacKinnon told an estimated crowd of 300 at MIT. "It's a question of sexual politics...
...serves as a forum for debate on social concerns that have yet to be recognized by the political and legal system. One alternative which arose during discussion following Saturday morning's slide show panel concerned the possibility of unionizing the sex industry. A representative from a group called "No Bad Girls, Only Bad Laws" spoke out on behalf of the prostitutes and porn actresses who would be directly affected by legislation, driving the industry further underground...
...lovely reactive performance, and Harris, with his Tom Sawyer grin, convinces the viewer that this goof-off has residues of charm Patsy can find intermittently irresistible. Lange keeps on astonishing. Hefty and bawdy, with a macaw's cackle in good times and a face like a fist in bad, Lange plays Patsy as a cracker Wife of Bath, sated with sexual love and hungry for more. Her Patsy would be a subtle stunner in any season. Right now she is enough to make moviegoers forget the boys and toys of summer...
...most part suffered little but toppled poles and trees and smashed windows. All along the storm's route there were phone lines down, steeples and trees felled, cars bashed by limbs, roadways flooded, some roofs dislodged, boardwalks buckled, beaches undermined and eroded, small boats sunk, windows smashed. Bad enough, perhaps, but when contrasted with what had been expected, whew! again. New York City Mayor Edward Koch found his typically unique words to express the relief felt by almost everybody: "We scared the hell out of the hurricane, and it went elsewhere...
...still lay ahead. That is so because the Soviet Union in its clumsy but inexorable way found that it was living in the "global village." That is Marshall McLuhan's term for a world so saturated with media that any significant act by anyone, anywhere, good or bad, is seen, reported and gossiped about. The Soviets stumbled from behind the Iron Curtain to face the cameras when they were clobbered on the world's tubes after bombing Afghan villages, blasting the Korean airliner, murdering Major Nicholson in Germany and committing a few dozen other uncivilized acts. Not only have...