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Finally, even when the Ad Board reaches a "good" outcome, students are so often alienated by the process that they derive none of the "educational" benefits that the Ad Board had hoped to impart to them. To characterize CLUH's recommendations for remedying these problems as having already been implemented is therefore to miss the entire point of the report...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLUH Report Was Distorted | 4/10/1992 | See Source »

Then there's J. Danforth Quayle, the nation's first teenage heartthrob vice president. To counter his widely perceived boyishness early in 1989, Quayle dyed the hair just above his ears gray. This, of course, was to impart an image of distinguished, rather than school-boy, good looks. But when news of his hair-graying plot came out, Danny just looked ridiculous...

Author: By Steven V. Mazie, | Title: Tricky George | 12/3/1991 | See Source »

...being outsiders. We spend our time watching other people's lives. We thrive on conflict and human suffering, and then, for lack of a better term, exploit it so that fellow outsiders can peer in and gasp with us. Along the way, some of us at least try to impart some lesson about justice, and hope that the lesson isn't lost amid the squawking...

Author: By Jonathan S. Cohn, | Title: Sometimes You've Just Gotta Take a Stand | 1/30/1991 | See Source »

...progressiveness, we suggest that the previous bias in drama was unfortunate, that the dearth of sensitivity to minority and female representation has robbed these groups of precious cultural capital. So when directors choose to cross-cast, they are making a conscious effort to impart new capital to those groups that were marginalized in the past...

Author: By Kelly A.E. Mason, | Title: Repercussions in Cross-casting | 11/30/1990 | See Source »

...really pushed the boys to succeed was their mother Dolores, 53, a handsome, strong-willed woman whose strict Roman Catholic education gave her a sense of order that she tried to impart to her children. "It was very important for me," she says, "that they would have some aesthetic thing that they could express themselves through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wynton Marsalis: Horns of Plenty | 10/22/1990 | See Source »

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