Word: notionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some educators dismiss as simplistic and overdone the notion that girls eagerly await such "feminine" software as Barbie CD-ROMs. With homework, soccer practice and Girl Scout meetings already on their calendars, many girls don't lack for activities. And when they do try their hand at video games, their tastes can run to Mortal Kombat as well as to Oregon Trail. That hardly shocks Marsha Kinder, a professor of critical studies at the University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television. "Those who are urgently trying to reach females end up reinforcing sexist stereotypes, such as 'Girls like cooperative...
Schnairsohn employs a flashing applause sign to help heighten the sense of meta-theatre. This works well during this early stages of the wonderful first scene, but over the course of the play it grows overly gimmicky; ostensibly mimicking the notion of an impossibly receptive live studio audience while in fact becoming nearly dependent...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "Frankly, I find it frustrating sometimes that our African-American leadership does not seem to accept the notion that economics and business development will determine the survival of our people...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "From all we can tell, the Republican vision of 'opportunity' is not unlike that satirized by Victor Hugo in the 19th century--the notion that all Parisians, whether rich or poor, were equal in having the right to decide whether they wished to live under the bridges along the Seine...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "It is time to return to the concept that government derives its power and legitimacy from the governed, and to overcome the liberal notion that the government is the source of all rights and privileges...