Word: enjoy
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Goodman describes in "Variant Text" an agnostic but rigidly observant househusband who wears an Abortion Rights button to Sabbath services and responds to a colleague's questions reagarding his faith with, "When you read a book, do you have to know the author to enjoy...
...sick idea came to inventor Tom Berquist three years ago during a discussion of why kids enjoy revolting things. Says he: "I think they get more control over their environment. The more the parents scream, the more the kids want the candy." Parents are not too keen on the promotional campaign either. Appearing at radio stations around the country to hand out free samples to fans is the Boogerman: an actor costumed as a 6-ft.-tall, green, slimy . . . Oh, yech...
...many reporters and editors, that is a necessary trade-off in order to enjoy the benefits of the profession. "When you decide to become a journalist," says the Post's venerable political reporter and columnist David Broder, "you accept a lot of inhibitions that come with the responsibility of being part of a private business that performs a very important public service...
...home the Japanese enjoy the soothing comfort of a hot ofuro, their traditional bath. On the road it's not so easy. Trying to re-create abroad their beloved steaming, full-tub soak, Japanese tourists have acquired a reputation for wreaking havoc on British hotel bathrooms...
...skilled women executives who insist on shorter hours or home leave to do it are thought to have gone soft in the head. This is the Mommy Track problem, though Hochschild does not use the phrase. A Daddy Track is barely in sight, though some men might enjoy not having to seem conventionally ambitious and being able, like modern women, to drop into and out of their careers...