Word: fears
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...eyed stare suddenly brings a hush over the audience. But after a second the boy regains his senses and goes on the attack. He lands a right jab squarely on Dan's nose; Dan reels and then stands perfectly still. In a moment, his face contorts in pain, fear, shock or whatever else a child feels when he's clunked hard. As the tears begin pouring, his father Dan Sr. grabs him out of the ring and holds him. "Barbaric," mutters Craig Smith, 23, sitting at ringside. Not so, say the two boys' parents, sitting together after...
...Californians face two highly controversial proposals. One would prohibit smoking in most work areas', lounges, cafeterias, sports arenas, theaters and certain areas of bars and restaurants. The proposal has pitted the American Cancer Society and the California Medical Association against the cigarette companies, which fear that the restrictions would cause their sales to drop. The other ballot proposition would require the firing of public school teachers who happen to be practicing homosexuals. The proposal is backed by groups like the Los Angeles Deputy Sheriffs' Association and the California Farm Bureau, but is opposed by an unusual coalition...
Like fashion, education is subject to frequent trendy shifts in style. Hemlines go up and environmental studies comes in. Spiked heels disappear, and so do foreign language requirements. And like any other fashion-conscious group, educational institutions imitate each other for fear of seeming behind the times. Of course, each institution is careful to retain enough individuality to keep from sinking into a sea of polyester clones. To find out what is currently chic, the fashionable keep their eyes on the trendsetters; in this way, Halston and Harvard have a common function...
...demanded (and won) the right to write, direct, star in, and even handle the promotion for his films. Every seemingly random pause, gesture, intonation in his material is carefully practiced and structured to contribute to the whole; it is the only way the nervous young Allen could overcome his fear of failure. That habit of maintaining total control stayed with him through his career. As for the easygoing, casual manner he suggests is the way he produces comedy, that too should be taken with a carton of salt, since Allen is still a troubled, somewhat tormented man. Many...
...this reticence? "It's more fun like this, to play a guessing game," said Freddy Plimpton. Other alleged participants may be motivated by fear of possible Times retaliation. Said one of the four or five Times employees who lent assistance: "I've been on strike for two months, I have ten kids, my mortgage payments are overdue...