Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Offsetting this intensity are ludicrously campy high school scenes featuring girls who look and dress like 28-year-old hookers. They taunt Carrie in a highly unfeminine fashion that might be more plausible if they were jocks abusing a classmate perceived as a sissy. Rock Star Darlene Love, playing a...
Although Amsterdam and Post Publisher Peter O. Price insist that the essential character of the paper will not change, it is already in transition. Under Press Lord Rupert Murdoch, the Post lost millions trying to win blue- collar readers away from the rival Daily News, while attracting a scant 10...
Ironically, the rough-sex defense may require an attractive defendant to succeed. It will work only if the accused is "sympathetic, not a hardened type of character," says New York Attorney Thomas Puccio. It may also require a certain kind of jury to accept the premise that young women might...
Despite all the fuss, Hamilton's book emerges as a canny and engaging variation on that old journalistic ploy: how to write a lively story about not getting the story. In Search of J.D. Salinger is basically a tour de force, impressively written but a bit precious. The author invents...
The emphasis on character rather than policy has been a gradual change. In an age when Presidents are elected more for their personalities than their platforms, books detailing the intricacies and foibles of character are the natural result.