Word: opinionating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dissenting Opinion...
...temperament Kline feared repetition, and at the start of the '60s he was seeking a way to get color back into his work. In fact, it had not entirely left; browns, vermilions and rust-reds are buried under the black girders of the '50s. Contrary to received opinion, Kline had a strong instinct for color, and by 1961 it was at full stretch in paintings like Andrus, with its slashing chords of violet, ultramarine and cadmium red. Andrus, which was in Kline's last show, was named after his cardiologist; in the spring of 1962 his rheumatic heart gave...
...Opinion polls conducted by various journals show that attitudes are rapidly changing. As recently as 1982, 80% of those surveyed in one study said premarital sex was immoral. In late 1985 polls put the figure between 60% and 65%. To no one's surprise, sexual repression is less popular among the young than the old. In a fall 1985 survey of married people in the Peking area, only half of the under-30s, in contrast to three-quarters of the over- 50s, said they opposed sex before marriage...
...Jaime Opinion, an election commission member, told reporters: "We will not hesitate to stop NAMFREL's quick count to prevent them from misleading the people into believing that one candidate...
...slimed its way back out the door, it turned and snarled, "You callous political schemer...you devious turncoat, that'll teach you to meddle in council politics." Standing amidst the remnants of my lunch and the smell of stale beer, I realized that in expressing my opinion on the divestment issue, I had unwittingly become an accomplice in a council coup d'etat...