Word: grouping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Even with all these offerings, the women fear the proliferation of home videos and DVDs will thin theater draws. White wants the audience to remember cinema as a group experience, to enjoy the collective dynamics of a crowded theater. In this spirit, the Brattle Theatre offers delightful details, such as the traditional double feature format, membership t-shirts, and refreshments like real-butter popcorn popped in canola oil, organic coffee and "fancy" chocolate bars. --S. TAKADA
...90qa, "Community in America," Putnam studies social capital in relation to civic engagement. In his 1995 article and upcoming book, Bowling Alone: Civic Disengagement in America and What to Do About It, Putnam employs bowling as a metaphor for a larger phenomenon in America. He charts the movement from group-oriented civic engagement, as manifested in bowling leagues, to isolating, individual activities, like bowling alone...
...Perhaps the most striking example" supporting this point, Putnam says, "is that there are very serious health defects of being alone. Here's a factoid: your chances of dying over the next 12 months are cut in half by joining one group, and a quarter by joining two groups...
Altering the public mindset about an issue as controversial as animal rights is best achieved through education, negotiation and extensive lobbying. To resort to such threatening and petty acts as sending razor blades via the mail is to undermine a group's credibility as a purveyor of information and as a vehicle for change...
Because animal rights activists receive so little press on a day-to-day basis, the sensationalist, headline-grabbing activities of violent activists weigh particularly heavily in the minds of the public and, regretfully, create unfavorable impressions of animal rights activists as a group...