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Word: objectively (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fashion model, a glamorous exotic. But that's all right. Her work gives her a logical reason to display herself, clothed and half-clothed in an erotic manner. It even supplies a certain twisted logic for the inevitable attack on her. She is, after all, a professional sex object. Why should she not attract-perhaps even seem to invite-the sadistic attention of a rapist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Marinade | 4/19/1976 | See Source »

Eighteen of 28 Jewish students polled yesterday said they object to the menus. Several suggested that the University serve at least one non-bread alternative at each meal during Passover...

Author: By Candace Kaller, | Title: University Menus Pass Over Jewish Holiday's Dietary Laws | 4/17/1976 | See Source »

...earlier bout, we scoffed when Baron Mikel Scicluna (a bad guy) reached elaborately into his trunks for a small peice of hard plastic (the "foreign object" as the TV announcers call it) with which to rake his opponent's neck. We recognized this as one of professional wrestling's ritual gestures, like the stunned, stylized way the wrestlers react to punches, with the dazed expression and wobbly walk they have all learned. The bad guy pleading for mercy with a fist clenched behind his back, the resounding stomp of the foot on the mat as each punch is delivered--these...

Author: By Joseph Straus, | Title: The Great Russian Chain Match | 4/15/1976 | See Source »

...political aspects of wrestling is that the rules and the referee seem to end up hindering the hero instead of protecting him from evil. The referee always remains oblivious when the bad guy uses a foreign object or a stranglehold. What often happens therefore is that the hero will have to resort to dirty tricks to gain a victory. The insidious effect of professional wrestling is not that it extolls brutality and violence, although it certainly does that, but that it promotes the abandoning of fairness and restraint to achieve personal ends. Bruno grinds the chain into Koloff's face...

Author: By Joseph Straus, | Title: The Great Russian Chain Match | 4/15/1976 | See Source »

...president of the Law School Council said yesterday he plans to ask various minority law student organizations to "exact sanctions at the national level" against a Chicago law firm that is currently the object of a Law School student's discrimination complaint...

Author: By Mark T. Whitaker, | Title: Student Advocates Taking of Sanctions Against Law Firm | 4/13/1976 | See Source »

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