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...every day," said Doug Watts, the campaign's director of communications. "Political ads have been sore thumbs that stick out from the other messages on TV, like a used-car ad in the middle of the travel ads." The producers used mostly 35-mm film (instead of inferior videotape), elaborate lighting, lush music (unheard of in political spots) and the latest cutting and dubbing techniques...
...King James Bible, is based on remarks made by St. Paul; he advised wives to subjugate themselves to their husbands and for husbands to protect "the weaker vessel." In this case and many others, Fraser indicates how the established church reinforced the image of women as morally and physically inferior. For example, women's prayers often included "Grandmother Eve," from whom all women were said to have inherited the original sin. Yet much of Fraser's book reveals how the 17th century was a time of change, even for women in the most static of institutions...
...create the taonga whakairo, or decorated treasures prized by the Maoris, a sculptor was expected to combine artistic skill with such qualities as leadership, courage, religious learning and generosity. So revered was the artist that he worked surrounded by student acolytes and apprentices, while women, who were regarded as inferior beings, were prohibited from watching him in the act of creation...
Some Medicare users fretted that although the premium change would hike their bills, the freeze would result in inferior health care. Said Joe Mazanek, president of Concerned Seniors of Dade County (Fla.): "If you are going to pay doctors less, they are going to find some way of cutting services...
...children, almost as if the policy only hurt the minority group. The omission angered Clark then, and it continues to anger him as the oversight is perpetuated by the Northern educational system, which he feels has concentrated desegregation efforts too strongly on the Black children. "Aren't there any inferior white children?" he asks "30 years after Brown," he added. "Brown has been repealed...