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...ground was taken over by the Alliance, which tried to depict the two major parties as too extreme. The Alliance platform, for example, called for keeping the nation's aging Polaris missiles and delaying a decision on deployment of U.S. cruise missiles in Britain as long as there was hope of serious negotiations with the Soviet Union...
...that a close friend was interviewed for the Kinsey report on women. The friend, who led a robust and varied sex life, gave chaste and virginal answers because she was not willing to let anyone know how she really behaved. Nowadays many people may offer up attitudes designed to depict themselves as properly liberated. Anthropologist Lionel Tiger, while studying a kibbutz in Israel, noticed that kibbutzniks whose daily conduct was clearly liberal almost always checked off conservative attitudes, and many conservative men and women reported liberal attitudes. This led to Tiger's First Law of Polling: "Attitudes are antidotal...
...Talibanize the country, and it edges Pakistan closer toward Islamic revolution. Her death is also, of course, a tragedy for her family, including the three children she leaves motherless. But the horror of Bhutto's end should not blind us to her mediocre legacy, and it is misleading to depict her as any sort of martyr for freedom and democracy...
...novel with a radical premise. A female professor goes to Nevada to get a divorce, falls in love with a woman, and the two live happily ever after. Desert of the Heart, a landmark in gay fiction, inspired the 1985 film Desert Hearts, the first major feature to favorably depict a lesbian relationship. Rule...
According to “On Harvard Time” founder and Executive Producer Derek M. Flanzraich ’10, the goal of the interviews was to depict the candidates as both campus politicos and real students...