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...which as seen from the front is purple on one side and brown on the other. Says she: "I wear it when I'm feeling ambiguous." Alan Dundes, an anthropologist at Berkeley, may have the best explanation of all: "People want to be different, unique, departing from the norm-so they buy an anti-Establishment shirt. But then everybody ends up wearing the same thing...
...civilization's most precise timepiece: the atomic clock. Zacharias has long been concerned about what he calls "mathophobia," a widespread fear of math among school children, especially minority students. Black children, according to a 1975 report by the Education Commission of the States, score 14% below the national norm on math tests at age 9, 21% below...
...includes man should remain unchanged: it proscribes chairwoman and spokeswoman on the grounds that chairman and spokesman suffice for both sexes, but it accepts assemblywoman and councilwoman. To "avoid words or phrases that seem to imply that the Times speaks with a purely masculine voice, viewing men as the norm," writers and editors are warned not to use "designations that are obviously disparaging." Examples: doll, weaker sex, the little woman and, in certain contexts, words like housewife, divorcee and sculptress. Gay, says the Times without explanation, is not to be used as a synonym for homosexual...
...Andrews, 39, who, with his partner John McMeel, was about to launch the Universal Press Syndicate. With considerable effort, Andrews talked the recent graduate into going national. Then 22, Trudeau signed a twelve-year syndication contract-which continues to give him 50% of Doonesbury royalties, the industry norm. In the fall of 1970, Trudeau's now familiar gang first surfaced in 28 papers. Andrews thought the title Bull Tales might offend some readers, so it was changed to Doonesbury, an amalgam of two words: doone, an old prep-school term for someone who is out to lunch, and Pillsbury...
Basically, the film takes an absurdly simplistic caricature of traditional theories of mental illness--that anyone deviating from the bland norm should be locked up and lobotomized--and reverses it, adding no subtleties in the process. The result is a prescription that "order" is wrong and that "sub-normal twits and gibbering hunks of animality" should inherit the earth. Randle McMurphy (Jack Nicholson) arrives at a relatively quiet ward in a mental institution, where three-quarters of the patients are "voluntaries," and he proceeds to wreak havoc. The only crazy thing about him, he claims, is that all he wants...