Word: offerred
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Women are instruments of male sexuality. (The above are corollaries of this fundamental assumption.) Women who do not compliantly offer up their bodies to the male sexual appetite are "frigid." BUT, it is important that sex be for his satisfaction only. Women who control and enjoy their own sexuality are "whores." This leads to a rather complicated emotional response to female sexuality--ambivalence as to whether there is a desire for "virgin" and/or "whore," but objectification in either case, leaving no roon for normal, healthy sexual response on the part of the woman. Thus the dorm from which Jenny emerges...
...surface, of course, there is nothing openly racist about the movie. Part of the message is that both the Japanese and American cultures have something valuable to offer. While Douglas exemplifies American bravado, he lacks the moral fortitude of his counterparts in the Japanese police. Indeed, we later find out that Douglas used to steal money during drug busts in New York...
...tribute to hipness, we offer the top 10 hippest Baltimore Oriole nick-names (compiled by Charm City locals Andy Fine and Andy Cameron, with an assist by yours truly...
...semester, about 10 years from now, the Kennedy School will undoubtedly offer a seminar on the problems of urban race relations in the 1980s--and the summer of 1989 in New York City could easily be used as the definitive case study...
...regions of rural poverty. Nor has Western Europe totally escaped the scourges of drugs and violence. Yet many West Europeans are not only matching Americans in material wealth, but they also believe themselves to be enjoying a better quality of life. "I don't know what America has to offer me that I haven't got already and that I would envy," says British architect Ian Grant. "There's no intellectual challenge at all. The only challenge is making money...