Word: instructive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...happy coincidence, Danny Pintauro, currently in a mid-career slump, will also be free to teach this semester. This former geek and cast member of runaway TV success "Who's the Boss," leapt up in the air and identified himself as "the boss" when offered the chance to instruct...
...thinking that we parents might screen our children's TV viewing by occasionally sitting with them, watching what they watch and making judgments about violence, sexual content, bad language and even gross behavior we'd prefer not to see imitated. When we're not home, we can instruct the sitter to let the kids watch only programs we've approved. If we have to have a V chip in our homes, it might as well...
...moon is mute. And the magnificent swirl of the cosmos simply marks time: it cannot tell us of history, cannot instruct us on what to remember, what to proscribe, what to avoid. Memory is born of biological time, and it is borne on blood and bone and phlegm. Can the stars shudder at sacrifice? Only humankind can grasp the need for heroism amid the persistence of warfare simply by noticing that virtually across the street from the bronze soldiers, who fought a war spawned in the Balkans, is Yugoslavia's mission to the U.N. And only we can repent...
...hosts, The X Show will attempt, as the pilot brags, "to filter out all the c___ and just give you the WD-40 that you need." That WD-40 seems to consist of words of wisdom from exotic dancers and a segment called "Gettin' It," which, for example, might instruct men on how to fake being sensitive. Also featured is the regular modeling of men's underclothing by women...
More broadly, Krogh accused Albright and her colleagues of conducting a policy based on scolding other nations. "They instruct the Russians and the Japanese on their economics, the Chinese on their politics, the Iraqis on their military, the Serbs on their provinces, the Latin Americans on drugs and the U.N. on reform...It is a foreign policy of sermons and sanctimony accompanied by the brandishing of Tomahawks." The article, which Krogh had passed around in advance to fellow members of the foreign policy elite, set Washington buzzing. Albright, brittle about her image, was furious...