Word: dares
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After all the furor over Vanessa Williams and the image she tarnished for young Americans, how do you dare print the photo of the men Olympic swimmers without their trunks [PEOPLE, Oct. 1]? It is typical of the double standard in our society. Boys will be boys, but girls had better be ladies...
...participating in the protest of Weinberger. The simple statement "Behold, our butter stinketh!" was all it took for an undergraduate to be expelled for insubordination in 1766. But although the food may have improved in the last two hundred years, the men who rule Harvard have not. If you dare declare "Weinberger stinketh..." or "Duarte recketh.." with the pungent odor of burning flesh, you may be tossed out of school...
...hundred Shi'ites. But they enjoy the passive support of much of the population, especially in the impoverished farming villages. In southern Lebanese villages like Marakah, for example, a call to arms is frequently broadcast from mosques. "Kill the Israelis! Death to the invaders!" loudspeakers intone. Israeli troops dare to enter some villages only in force, and their armored cars and Jeeps bristling with machine guns are inevitably greeted by jeers from women and children...
...There is no better realization anywhere of a small town's sense of community than in the way Benton groups its citizens, first at a wake, then at a dance. At another moment, a pair of guilty lovers (Ed Harris and Amy Madigan), emblematic of the dissatisfactions that dare not speak their name in all the earth's Waxahachies, betray themselves to his wife (Lindsay Grouse) by the way they handle a deck of cards in a rummy game. Best of all is the Communion service that climaxes the movie, where, with amazing grace, Benton moves almost imperceptibly...
...thin ice (unless the band were disturbing people's sleep or otherwise invading their privacy). But when the band appears during halftime, it is officially representing the University. It is also appearing before a public audience that is somewhat "captive" since most people will have come to the stadium (dare I finish the sentence) primarily to see the football game rather than to hear the band. In these circumstances, the University has a legitimate interest in seeing to it that the band observes some limits on the material it uses, and the audience has an interest in not having...