Word: jettisoning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...portrayed not as human beings working harder than most to get through the day, but as heroes and holy fools. In many a film fable they are sentimentalized into superior beings -- residents of some spiritual high-rise that the rest of us might aspire to, if only we dared jettison our inhibitions and soar into the divine state we ignorantly call dysfunction or some unkinder name...
...biggest clue as to whether Yeltsin is ready to move closer to the political center will come in his dealings with such radical reformers as Gaidar, Finance Minister Boris Fyodorov and Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev. The President may decide that the time has come to jettison all or some of them from his team in the interest of building a consensus for reforms that proceed at a slower pace and demand less exacting social sacrifices. Last week he signalled his anger at the nationalists' strong showing by firing his chief legal adviser and the chairman of a television company that...
...their founder: "Even Freudian analysts don't hold themselves 100% to Freud. Psychotherapy is like one of those branching trees, where each of the branches legitimately claims a common ancestry, namely Freud, but none of the branches are sitting at the root. We'd be very mistaken to jettison psychotherapy or Freud...
...every day that a man gets to jettison the ethical and aesthetic standards of a lifetime. Until now, the guiding principle of my journalistic career has been so rock-bottom firm, so bristling with integrity, that it could be etched on my tombstone: HE NEVER WROTE ABOUT DONALD TRUMP...
...Hood, and in Trespass, coming out this week, he is a gun-toting gangster. Although he may play a criminal in movies and in his music, it's a front. Not that he doesn't have an ugly, heavy-metal misogynistic side that he really ought to jettison. But he does show indications of an underlying humanism. On his first solo album in 1990, AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted, he brought in female rapper Yo-Yo to counterbalance his sexist views. On one track on The Predator, he says, "I do want the white community to understand." On another he fantasizes...