Word: looked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mixed in with The Journal of Sex Research and Havelock Ellis' class texts on sexuality, are other books. Bound volumes of Playboy sit quietly next to The Groupsex Tapes and Great Bordellos of the World: An Illustrated History. Others have titles like Meat: How Men Look, Act, Walk, Talk, Dress, Undress, Taste and Smell...
...Thursday, Tiananmen Square contained hardly any more people than it would on a pleasant Sunday afternoon. The difference was that the 20,000 to 30,000 students still there were camped out on tarps covered by makeshift tents of clear plastic or by clusters of umbrellas, which made it look like a beach outing in places. But living on the square's paving stones was no day at the beach. Downwind, the aroma of urine was overwhelming...
...these two events to be occurring at the same time was remarkable but not coincidental. The interaction between what has been happening in Beijing and Moscow may lead future historians to look back on May 1989 as the most momentous month in the second half of the 20th century. Forces of epochal transformation are bubbling up from below in China, while they are being marshaled from above in the Soviet Union. But in both cases these changes are driven by a recognition that Communism has failed its subjects, the people, and that the only solution is far-reaching reform...
...Education Department positions. Nor has Bush shown much generosity in funding: his $22.3 billion education budget for 1990 does not allow for inflation, effectively eroding future buying power. Says former U.S. Commissioner of Education Harold Howe: "That was a signal that Bush was going to look like the education President...
...Hollywood bureau chief have resigned, and top editor David Sendler must now answer to a new corporate overlord: Roger Wood, former editor of the sensationalistic New York Post, which Murdoch owned until last year. "There's no interest anymore in analysis of the industry or in taking a serious look at the content of TV news," says an unhappy staffer. "The watchdog role that TV Guide has traditionally played is being totally abrogated." A few exceptions remain, like last week's report "Is TV News Guilty of Japan Bashing?" Yet Wood, according to insiders, singled out that piece for criticism...