Word: bothered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill hearings made women recall their own tales of sexism, so has the Tailhook scandal made females in uniform question their handling of aberrant behavior in the past. One Air Force captain recalls overlooking a minor incident years back. The man got promoted and continued to bother other women. Now she thinks maybe she should have made a little noise. An Air Force staff sergeant recalls a military doctor who used to pat the buttocks and breasts of many female patients, regardless of their ailment. As for the men, they stand divided. One Navy ensign has little...
Furthermore, no one has been able to capture the essence of and crush public figures like Trudeau. In Doonesbury, he doesn't bother to draw actual portraits of prominent politicians. Instead, he reduces them economically and hilariously to talking symbols, conveying their characters with just a few strokes of the pen. Dan Quayle is nothing but a talking feather; George Bush a Few symmetrical lines floating in the air and David Duke a talking swastika...
...doesn't bother me," says Cohen of customers' condom cracks. In fact, he says, "I'll be the first one to tell them...
Similar restoration would help relations on a campus like Harvard's, where students stand so firmly on their own ground that they often don't bother chipping back to see what's underneath. The crises I've seen on campus so far--about race relations, about sexual politics, about religion--are all fueled by self-righteousness. Students identify so vehemently with their own positions that they forget about their common foundations...
Many students here are so used to standing up for themselves--and so self-consciously articulate in their arguments--that they rarely bother to really listen to the other side. One student shouts. Another shouts louder. The first shrieks back. Each has a good point and a lot to learn from the other. Neither winds up with anything but a colossal headache and a shattered relationship...