Word: deviationism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Its central distortion was that the enslaved man was not a man; he was the opposite of a man, whatever that might be. His very color was a sign of deviation, a sign to be carried by generations after him, like the mark of Cain. There are a dozen scenes...
Walesa proved equally adept at hard-nosed political bargaining. After eight days of tense face-to-face negotiations with Polish Deputy Premier Mieczyslaw Jagielski, he won a historic agreement that made Poland the only Communist country to have independent trade unions. It was a daring deviation from Marxist-Leninist orthodoxy...
But although there is agreement on the fact that the gap widened at the end, no one except Caddell and Wirthlin came close to calling the margin. The Harris organization, which is claiming great credit for doing better than other public polls, was four points off Reagan's actual...
The only veteran from the movie is costume director Sue "Yay Sue!" Blaine. Frank Gregory undulates admirably as Frank N. Furter, but the image of Tim Curry's entrancingly seductive performance remains etched in memory as the real thing; Pendleton Brown plays a fine Riff Raff, Furter's alien sidekick...
Anthropologist Robin Fox's conclusions about the struggle for control of the society [Sept. 22] are basically sound, but he is wrong when he says that the aspiration among modern women to jobs in the marketplace is a foolish deviation from the norm. Evolution itself is a deviation from...