Word: notionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Deputy superintendent Lev Baldwin thinks it's unfair to single out weight lifting as criminal empowerment. "What's the difference," he asks, "between allowing them to get big muscles or letting them do aerobics so they can snatch purses and run faster?" The inmates themselves chuckle at the notion that biceps are a crook's best friends. Says prisoner Philip Shaw, 31, who resorts to 1,000 push-ups a day when he's not allowed in the gym: "You don't go into a bank and flex your muscles and say, 'Give me your money...
...Vietnam and his own turn on the world stage, as National Security Adviser and then Secretary of State under Presidents Nixon and Ford. He pounds away at the naivete of the peace movement, the hypocrisy of the Establishment and the perfidy of the North Vietnamese. And he dismisses the notion that America's national interests would have been better served if Nixon had set an early withdrawal date (and in the process lands a little jab -- "Would that history were as simple as journalism" -- at the contrary treatment of this point in my book...
...notion that A. afarensis might have been more than one species was largely based on the wide range of sizes of the specimens. Lucy, for instance, appeared to have been only about 3 ft. 6 in. tall and to have weighed 60 to 65 lbs., while some males would have topped 5 ft. and 110 lbs. Size variations between the sexes are common among the great apes, but they aren't usually this drastic among hominids. (Despite the extreme examples of, say, the towering Shaquille O'Neal and the tiny Dr. Ruth Westheimer, there's only about...
...musical accompaniment to the choreography of manhood in motion. The high testosterone content may not be all bad. "I do like the boys' rituals of sports," says Ron Shelton, writer- director of the smartly rueful Bull Durham and the zesty White Men Can't Jump. "I like the notion of boys playing games, men playing boys' games...
Realizing that her exhibit risks "ghettoizing" women artists by addressing their work as fundamentally separate from that of men, Mansfield firmly asserts that she is not attempting to formulate a single "category of `femininity,'" but rather to celebrate the plurality inherent in the notion of femininity...