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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...decision is particularly disturbing when viewed in the context of MCAD's supposed role. Agencies such as MCAD were created to counter discrimination in our society. MCAD decided not to rule on discrimination in this case. The ruling--by legitimating discrimination--strikes a blow against all people trying to fight...
...women grab hold of these myths because physical control is more readily attained than emotional control. Psychiatrists will tell you not to discuss food or appearance with these women, because doing so only encourages the illusion that appearances are all, and that the female psyche is negligible in that context...
...museum's insurance company for a cash fraction of the value. That might sound hopeful, except that there is no insurance company to bargain with. The Gardner Museum -- like many other U.S. museums -- carries damage insurance but no theft coverage on its collection. To do so in the context of today's art prices, a spokesman explained, could cost some $3 million a year; the museum's total operating budget is only $2.8 million...
...problem with that, of course, is that resigning the presidency is something that is beyond their imagination. And so, consequently, that's why throughout the book I tried to put it in a context that they could understand. But I felt that if I could let them see what I went through, and how I at least recovered in part, that that might tell them that life wasn't over...
...suitable substitute for seeing a production, we do not believe it is a waste of space to tell people "what a Beckett production is like to watch." There are some Crimson reader who, in fact, do not know what a Beckett play is "like to watch," and context within a review helps inform them...