Word: minuses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Playboy Channel, which airs daily from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m., E.S.T., is an expanded video version of Publisher Hugh Hefner's glossy magazine, minus the good writing. Ribald Classics presents softcore, soft-minded dramatizations of often less than classic tales in a visual style somewhat reminiscent of gauzy old Clairol commercials. Playboy on the Scene brings the monthly centerfolds to life, though not intelligent life, in filmed segments showing their phantasmagoric photo sessions (as Miss December dutifully undrapes for the 9th time, she purrs: "I'm a very touchy-feely person"). The two smirky anchors of Sexcetera...
...center of the traditional curriculum and taught the value of filial piety, loyalty, nationalism and, above all, fealty to the Emperor. The American overseers saw shushin as part of the country's problem and banned it. In 1957, five years after the occupation ended, shushin was restored, minus its ultranationalist trappings and with the new name of dotoku. Again the aim was to instruct youngsters in the importance of respect for the common good. In a sense, it is what makes Japan's education system truly Japanese...
...survey polled 1,007 registered voters by telephone from June 27 to 29. The sampling error is plus or minus 3%. When compared with results of previous TIME-Yankelovich polls, the potential sampling error is plus or minus...
...menacing androgyny of a Mick Jagger, whose odd dual nature appears to find its roots in the bowels of Greek mythology. Rather, it is represented by a fellow like Alan Alda, a man's man but wearing pastel sweaters. In fact, this heroic vision was realized long ago (minus the pastel sweaters) in such figures as Henry Fonda and the recently usurped Jimmy Stewart. What seems to be sought nowadays is a Californiated version of the former types, men who have achieved their "softness" specifically because of their therapeutic and ennobling association with women...
...ALREADY prepped for improper judgements from what had happened to my thesis: my first reader begrudged me a cum plus, saying I didn't prove any of my points, I was a sexist, and had made too many typos. My second reader gave me a summa minus, saying that while there were flaws, chapters 2, 5 and 6 were terrific. So it was given to a third reader because of the discrepancy; she also awarded a summa minus, but said that by far the strongest chapters were numbers 3 and 4. With this foreknowledge of subjectivity and chance, I felt...