Word: dissecting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sclerotic and establishmentarian. Women, swept up in a drive for legal abortion and other rights, have turned away from it as unresponsive to their needs. Middle-class Italians, once the party's backbone, grumble about its ineffectiveness and vulnerability to scandal and corruption. Italian editorial writers ceaselessly dissect the party's "crisis" and discover new symptoms of its logoramento-exhaustion...
...work force in the nation's health services, but overwhelmingly, they are nurses and technicians?helpers rather than leaders. Only 9% of physicians are women. Female med students still find much to complain about. Says one: "Guess what part of a male cadaver I'm assigned to dissect first." But, says Dr. Frances K. Conley...
...have won Deeb, TV and radio critic for the Chicago Tribune, a reputation as the wolf-man of the air waves−the sourest, crudest ravager of the medium since Spiro Agnew put away his thesaurus. Deeb's daily diatribes, now syndicated to 60 papers, do not merely dissect new shows but also provide inside accounts of broadcast-industry greed, timidity and assorted other failings. Deeb has described lavish network press junkets in embarrassing detail, disclosed power struggles at local stations, and even exposed the suppression of an abortion documentary at WON, the Trib 's own TV outlet...
...line. The only thing he seemed to squander was his life. The heir to a relentlessly middle-class colonial tradition, Orwell gained a scholarship to Eton, then made a false start as a policeman in Burma. Out of that five-year catastrophe came the embittered radical who could dissect his emotions and his country with pitiless surgery...
...depend on the Bud Collins's, Howard Cosells and David Frosts to dissect and dessicate it today, tomorrow and next week, into just so much printed copy, dead airtime, dry commentary, insipid television footage. They couldn't do justice to good stuff if Ali gave it to them every night...