Word: materialistically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have to be a historical materialist to see that preaching middle class values while denying many Americans middle class options simply dodges the problem. As Smeal pointed out, it takes a certain audacity for an all male "Face the Nation" panel and a CBS docu-drama to question the morals of young Blacks. Those who now preach about lax sexual mores are the same ones who not so long ago closed their eyes and ears to the problem...
Harvard's Lowell House proposes its answer to these and other questions by showing SPLASH. Daryl Hannah, decked out as a real foxy fish-lady, makes a case for nature while Tom Hanks defends dear old materialist Americana. Basically this story is about how the nice mermaid gets screwed when she encounters human beings, or more accurately New Yorkers. She just wants to live in peace and harmony (and water!) while the smarmy Hanks avidly desires to split her fins. Personally Dewitt is rooting for the fish...
...ride in a "space limousine." With lines like, "Thrashin', mashin'/Cashin' in on the groove. . . . /Take no prisoners/Show no mercy," Parliament's old leader and his Anglo sidekick make no bones about their beefs. As the title track says, our potential for good times is being suffocated within our materialist, conservative regime. Just "like we split a pair of genes/We split the whole world at the seams...
Business: Industrial raw materialist such as minerals, coal...
...that he seems less a scientist than a game-show host. But he is a far more amusing figure. He is, in fact, some ultimate Yuppie, seemingly stoned on fern-bar manners, mores and folk wisdom. His utter imperviousness to anything that cannot be comprehended in those basic materialist terms is finally a more potent weapon than all the atomic gadgetry he and his friends carry into their battles with the forces of darkness...