Word: narrowed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...self-imposed deadlines; in the Revlon vs. U.S. case, the judge's decision was not handed down until 1975, nine years after trial. But even the most skillful and best-intentioned judges may be thwarted by the complexity and sheer size of some cases. "How much can you narrow the issues when the question is, 'Did a two-decade course of conduct in an industry amount to willful monopolization?' " asks Judge Jon O. Newman, who presided over the SCM Corp.'s $1.5 billion antitrust suit against Xerox. Pretrial discovery took 3½ years ("Not bad, considering...
Attempting to fit something as huge and varied as American culture onto a narrow Freudian couch is bound to strain credulity. Appropriated for sociology, the term narcissism sometimes seems as frustratingly insubstantial as Echo, the nymph who taunted Narcissus by repeating his words. Yet undoubtedly Lasch is on to something quite real. The est-thetes, the self-accredited sex therapists, the purveyors of cosmic consciousness and Buddhamatics, the pathetic zombies of Jonestown are not figments. Narcissism may not be a constant or universal disorder, but it is hard to deny that the horizons of millions of Americans have become...
...ridiculous on the cover of countless magazines already knows, the media in this country can hardly ever be accused of seeking new directions or even of good taste. For the movies and television seem to have had remarkable success in sticking to the Eisenhower mentality--taking the straight and narrow path down the middle...
Psychiatrist LaGrone's dismal picture of the transient military family [Dec. 11] is grossly distorted. Moving around is for us a way of avoiding the stifling, narrow-minded existence of one town, one state, one country. He suggests that our fathers are authoritarian figures in search of someone to bully. Except for the uniform, the average military family man is shockingly ordinary...
Such playground infighting is fueled by the high odds against the success of any new record: as program directors at the stations narrow their play lists and the Top 40 shrinks to the Top 25, companies try to introduce an average of 150 new records every week, of which maybe three will be hits. But the rewards can be as big as the risks. "We've shaken off our dependence on the whims of twelve-year-olds," says Elektra/Asylum Chairman Joe Smith. "No longer is the Establishment above pop music." Adds Coury, "What we've done is put the industry...