Word: caste
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...revolving door into our profession. These qualms are too hoity-toity. Journalism should be a game anyone is allowed to play. But when folks show up claiming to be reformed spinners, they ought to confess their own past spins before they start denouncing others'. Let the person without spin cast the first stone...
...misery, if that's what it was, to grow new arms and legs. "Do I think she may have been hurt? That it was potentially a much more graphic thing than she ever expected? That it questioned the validity of their marriage? Sure. But they are working hard to cast it not as a presidential issue but as a personal one. His numbers will stay high as long as they isolate it to a sexual family matter," he said. "That's what they are trying...
This is also an expression of self-interest: by protecting his family he was protecting himself. This is the lie sociologists see when one partner in a marriage hides an adulterous liaison. One study showed that while women committing adultery tend to blame themselves, the men cast the blame elsewhere. Women feel shame when they lie; men regret. A woman will say, "I lied; therefore I'm no good." A man will say, "I lied, but Ken Starr forced...
...notorious. People come to stop and gawk," sighed a homeowner as a car swung into her driveway, having done just that. "We're so used to hearing about these sordid things these days that nothing shocks us anymore," said Weinlein, the neighbor, "and it's sad." She cast her eyes around. "Pretty soon it's going to be old news. Things will go on as usual," she said, then broke into laughter. "But right now, well--it's like that O.J. Simpson deal...
...teams that created Roseanne, The Cosby Show and 3rd Rock from the Sun, That 70's Show is otherwise a typical teen comedy, only with '70s artifacts pasted into it. Satirizing smiley faces and leisure suits is hardly fresh, although there's a sweetness and likability to the cast, led by Eric Foreman. The show may be more sophisticated than its '70s equivalent, Happy Days (also set 20 years before its own time), but that's not saying much...