Word: forme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...found, amused itself by snatching food from the mouths of children and kicking the elderly into campfires). Remarks Judith Martin, who writes a satiric "Miss Manners" column for the Washington Post: "We're coming out of a psychologically self-oriented era. I think there's a craving for tradition, form, orderliness?and there's also a desire to be protected from everybody else's expression of self...
Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, but don't try to tell that to the Dallas Cowboys. The National Football League's reigning Super Bowl champions have discovered that they cannot keep a good thing to themselves, either on the sidelines or on the field. First, a dozen teams around the league began buying up hot pants and spangles, then proceeded to out-cleavage the Cowboys' cheerleaders. Then, while Dallas was struggling to win games, a flock of teams once considered lambs suddenly turned into lions. As a result, the Cowboys face a struggle...
Plomer once compared himself to "a craftsman, a scholar, an engineer, or a scientist" in the quest for proper literary form; but he was entertaining in whatever medium he chose. Convinced that pleasure was an essential component of literary criticism, Plomer preferred the engaging voice of a raconteur to the severe objectivity of a scholar. "Why should we be hardened?" he wondered. "Who wants to be a fossil?" This generosity of spirit made him a popular figure on BBC radio and television, which he mastered despite his professed aversion for modern technology...
Sylvester Stallone has become Hollywood's self-appointed poet of the simple-minded. He speaks Brooklynese, and diamonds of wisdom in the form of dese, dems and dats stream out of Cosmo, Stallone's character in Paradise Alley ("Nature's a funny thing"). Directed and written by Stallone (he even bellows the theme song), Paradise Alley invites comparisons with Rocky...
...rejected violent means. "I don't think anybody in their right minds advocates violence," Noam Chomsky, a renowned linguist and an anarchist himself, says. "I think what you achieve non-violently should be defended. Of course, some people feel that the redistribution of the country's wealth is a form of violence," he adds...