Word: normale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Friday marks the opening of two films that were made separately by directors who were once husband and wife. Evelyn Purcell's Nobody's Fool and Jonathan Demme's Something Wild have more in common than the eleven-year marriage of their directors. Both are romantic comedies about a normal guy and a kooky gal made in a style we might call funky folkloric. The narratives are ever willing to stop in their circuitous tracks and wait appreciatively for an eccentric character to idle on by. Trouble is, it takes more than divorce papers and edgewise weirdies to inform...
Brody's next goal is "to be a spokesperson for the normal body. I won't try to project an image of ultraslimness. If you have a little bit of a belly or a tush, it's O.K." Moderation, she says intensely, is really the point. "Part of the problem of selling good health is that people think it's all or nothing. I try to let them know that it can be a little bad as long as it is mostly healthy." And she does not hesitate to admit her own frailties. Especially when it comes to ice cream...
...which cost taxpayers millions of dollars, was a prime example of congressional intervention in arms purchases, based almost solely on parochial, pork-barrel politics. While Northrop supporters noted that the competition had forced General Dynamics to offer a streamlined F-16 at $3.5 million less than the normal $12.5 million, Northrop had gambled more than $1 billion on its F-20. Only three of the Tigersharks were built; two crashed during demonstration flights...
...class these were exceedingly vulnerable candidates. Excepting Nelson, their average vote in the preceding election was 53 percent, and their previous election was 1974--the most disastrous Republican year in a generation. In short, these liberal Senators were living on borrowed time. Had 1974 been a normal year, they probably would not have been around to lose in 1980 and invest that election with its seeming significance. As for what defeated them in 1980, given their precarious positions, everything was important no matter how small--Reagan coattails, the efforts of the NCPAC and a conservative resurgence on the one hand...
...court judged neither the text-books, nor the coherence of the convictions from which the fundamentalists' argued--only the "sincerity" of their beliefs. In any normal case, say a murder trial, evidence is presented to reconstruct what happened outside the court and who was in the wrong. The deciding factor in the textbook case, however, was not a comparison of textbook content and a system of belief like Christianity or creationism, but a judgment of the authenticity of whatever the plaintiff chose to present. That is, the evidence was the proceeding itself...