Word: objection
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...something is missing. Why should I, as a man, change my attitudes? How can I? Vanessa Williams was a sex object before the Penthouse pictures were published, even before she entered the Miss America pageant, at least to the men who passed her on the street. Art is objectification; looking is objectification. We categorize and stereotype all the time. It's the way the mind works...
Most men don't object to equality in relationship, in the workplace, or in the home. I think we do have some problems, however, with being told how and what we can think about women. Perhaps the traditional masculine ideals of sex are pernicious. Why should the neo-puritan conceptions of the feminist fascists be any better...
...object of much of this wrath is Berlusconi, 49, who is making his first venture into French television. A self-made millionaire in real estate before he was 40, Berlusconi started buying Italian TV stations in 1978 and soon linked them into nationwide networks, with schedules heavily laced with game shows and U.S. movies and series. Though private TV networks are officially banned in Italy, a government edict allowed Berlusconi's popular channels to continue...
...miner. Valentina Plenova, 55, a spunky factory worker, took the floor to complain about the inertia at many industrial enterprises. Said she: "We still work like yesterday." Later Plenova's deeper feelings surfaced. "I'm in love with my leader," she blurted. "In love!" She then paid Gorbachev, the object of her affection, the ultimate compliment. During the 5 1/2-hour speech that he delivered to the congress two weeks ago, she recalled, "I wasn't even sleepy." It is on that kind of wakeful worker that Gorbachev is pinning his hopes...
...Soviets were justifiably proud. Their spacecraft -- designed, built and equipped under their supervision by scientists from ten nations -- had become the first man-made object to record close-up views of a comet's coma and nucleus, and send the images and other data back to earth.* It also served as the advance guard for four other craft -- the Soviet Vega 2, the Japanese Suisei and Sakigake, and the European Space Agency's Giotto -- that were to sweep by Halley's in the following week...