Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...relations with the U.S.: I want a good and close relationship with the United States. We have a lot in common. Nigeria is the most important political country on this continent and we have an important role to play in this context. I think that if the U.S. and Nigeria could work together, we could achieve a lot within the continent of Africa...
...pleading about British homophobia; Wilde is a collaborator in his own misfortune. Shaw, Max Beerbohm, Frank Harris and the Edwardian elite are given delightful cameo roles, and the prose has the appropriate drawing-room astringency: Shaw and Wilde might have been close friends "if they only had less in common." If this is a novel with an excess of surface, that was, after all, its subject's salient feature. The important part, as Wilde would insist, is that the thing glitter. And so it does...
Jeff Zucker's piece in defense of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue was a depressing statement of an all too common position on sexism in American society. Excusing SI because "they've just given us what we asked for" expressed a resignation that cannot remain unopposed. Those of us who care about equality cannot condone a mass media that perpetuates the attitudes of a sexist society...
...error. The complete macho male anthem is that all women are whores, lesbians, or frigid. By merely introducing lesbianism or bisexuality in the women characters, this pretentious film does nothing to change men's stereotypical views of female sexuality it merely confirms one aspect of a nasty but common world view. To effectively make a feminist statement, one would have to introduce issues beyond the mundane comic plane and tie in sexual preference to the larger social context more clearly. Instead, Wertmuller tried to make a statement "softly, softly," and ends up not being heard...
...feisty style of a man whose campaign literature calls him "an incorrigible," State Sen. George Bachrach (D-Watertown), a congressional candidate, discussed his politics with 45 students last night in the Straus Hall common room...