Word: labeling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...least cheerful findings for Republicans was that if Reagan were to seek reelection, he would lose, based on current voter sentiment, by 54% to 27% to any "acceptable" Democrat. What a voter finds acceptable, of course, varies widely, and an unidentified candidate with such a safely neutral label is more attractive in theory than any specific Democrat likely to get the nomination...
...coming to your town; it may even be there now. Look around. Hooded sweatshirts and cockeyed caps, leather bomber jackets and sheepskin coats heavy enough to bench press. Pristine white sneakers-"kicks" to you, Jim-laced up with byzantine complexity; luxury-label cords and knife-creased jeans; burnished belt buckles that might be police state special issue. Could be the population of the local high school, right? Standard teen-age uniform, right? You're whacked. Look closer, and start uptown. Def thrives at that address...
...dancing, especially breaking, is an essentially male competition, but even in fashion the boys dominate. Gentlemen's Quarterly is treach. "Males have more plumage," says Monica Lynch, vice president of Tommy Boy records, a Manhattan rap label. "Guys are out there flashing their stuff, and the girls are usually wearing a watered-down version of what the guys have on. The girls don't want to look all that nasty." Maybe not, but with their penchant for leather pants or layers of Kamali-esque sweatshirtings, they have a sure knowledge of the impact of style. Says Lisa...
...response to a recent Justice Department decision to label three Canadian films as political propaganda, a professor at the Medical School has collected about 70 signature from colleagues for a letter protesting the move...
...YEAR BEFORE George Orwell predicted, Big Brother is watching over you. He withholds documents subpoenaed by Congress, censors foreign films, and limits the free flow of information essential to any democracy. The recent Justice Department decision to label three Canadian films as "political propaganda" and to monitor their screening exemplifies yet again the Reagan Administration's negative attitude towards open debate and complete freedom of information and expression...