Word: functions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Nationalism emerged because of the dissolution of the society of order, and specifically because of the problems of status. So the function of nationalism was to secure for those groups whose status was threatened their sense of dignity--and, by the way, these groups have all disappeared today....Nobody is interested in the predicament of the nobility today--and yet, nationalism appeals to people because it still serves the very same function. It still guarantees liberty. And this is what you see now. It is because of this function of nationalism that it still is such a powerful force...
...wall label that prepares the eager visitor for the X-rated room in which these tidbits are displayed, the museum points out that "the artist and his wife function in a manner not unlike the vacuum cleaners," which is true, though not perhaps as meant. The text compares the "shocking" character of Made in Heaven to other once shocking works of the past, such as Courbet's Burial at Ornans, Matisse's Woman with the Hat and Manet's Olympia. And yet it adds, "All this is not to say that Koons' art is equivalent to the greatest work...
Because it is Harvard's paper, The Crimson has a responsibility that most other newspapers do not have. Our primary function is to educate our readers about news and events. But we are a collegiate extracurricular activity, and have the added responsibility of educating our own staff...
...straining sexual frenzy. It sounds like a promising part for the best-selling author of Sex. But movies get rated, and trying to stay on the sunny side of an R, this one turns into a static courtroom drama -- and not very well made or played either. Madonna's function is to irritate the decorous and titillate the impressionable. It's a waste of her time (and the moviegoer's) to, er, shackle her to a respectability on which neither party...
...elderly are quick -- and correct -- to denounce the low savings rate among the young. But the growing reliance on subsidies from older generations is more a function of despair than greed, reflecting the downward mobility of millions of young families. "Inheritance looms larger by default," says Phillip Longman, author of Born to Pay: The New Politics of Aging in America. "Increasingly, the only way for the young middle class to stay in the middle class is to inherit the trappings...