Word: manly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...imagine yourself in any of central * London's small, discreet hotels. The woman at the front desk will offer a cordial greeting as you check in, tell you about the facilities and invite you to have tea or a drink at the bar. Unless, of course, you are a man. In that case, you will be urged, very graciously, to leave...
...evidence of this impending rebirth of vigor and social activism, the authors point to a motley hodge-podge of completely unrelated events. They cite the politicization of comic strips like "Bloom County" and "Cathy." They herald the social conscience of Rain Man and the The Good Mother...
...speaking here of a man who sincerely believes that trading good grades for sex is "a pure, almost abstract example of tit for tat." A man who affectionately refers to his libido as "the Barker machine," characterizes women by their morals and their bodies (i.e., Gloria: lapsed Catholic, enormous boobs) and concludes that two attractive women out together are automatically lesbians (Why else would they choose the company of another woman over that of a man...
Through a university exchange scheme, she is assigned to spend one day a week as the "shadow" of Vic Wilcox, the managing director of a Rummidge engineering firm and a man who doesn't know--or care--that such a thing as literary theory exists...
...cogs; automata; they simply feel to make sure you have punched the right holes. As they cannot think, they cannot be impressed; they are clods. The only way to beat their system is to cheat.) In the humanities and social sciences, it is well to remember, there is a man (occasionally a woman), a human type filling out your picture postcard. What does he want to read? How, in a word, can he be snowed...