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Word: deviant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thousands of years, homosexuality has been considered deviant and unnatural behavior. Would your movie reviewer have us believe that a few new '82 films will make it an acceptable alternate lifestyle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 12, 1982 | 4/12/1982 | See Source »

...group's similarities to it as a (possible) prelude to more eccentric and individualistic portrayals. For the moment, at least, that is the way gays prefer to see these pictures. Says Lucia Valeska, executive director of the National Gay Task Force: "If gayness is seen not as a deviant life-style but as something that happens to a lot of people, this can only be positive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Gays to the Fore, Cautiously | 3/22/1982 | See Source »

...group claims that "since the late 1950s, the branches of the social sciences known as 'criminology,' international law and 'deviant studies' have been a thinly veiled cover for the training, recruiting and deploying of international terrorist organizations of both red (communist) and black (neo-fascist) varieties...

Author: By Compiled FROM College newspapers, | Title: Campus Terrorism | 3/13/1982 | See Source »

...them), and they do have an impact on the real world. You have a good chance of persuading a majority to support you but all is not lost if you don't. You can always write an "On the Other Hand" editorial stating your own position, no matter how deviant (miscreant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Act of Love | 9/30/1981 | See Source »

Alexandra Phillips and Alexander Pearson, as the sexually deviant couple, work well together--his neurotic calmness offset by her frantic hysteria. As Dr. Prentice tries with the determination born of despair to hide the evidence of his misdemeanor. Mrs. Prentice rushes madly from one end of the stage to the other, always one step behind. Melissa Franklin, as the hapless Geraldine Barclay, adds an Edward Gorey-like gallows humor to the play. She plays the innocent, dumb blond with evenness, never falling into the easy trap of whining or simpering...

Author: By Laura K. Jereski, | Title: The Butler Does It--Well | 4/28/1981 | See Source »

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