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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...applying the language of adult sexual harassment and sexual discrimination to kids? It's hard to tell if today's children behave much better or much worse than those of the past, since sexual-harassment studies are new to the '90s. Davis supporters believe they can draw a valid parallel to workplace sexual harassment, where once common behavior is now seen as unacceptable. "It's the same behavior, and it comes from the same place," says Martha Davis, legal director of the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund. But opponents point out that children can be cruel without fully understanding...
Overeducated fans turn baseball into "text." One historian sees the game as an American fertility rite. A professor of English at the University of Rochester, George Grella, has written that "while (baseball) radiates a spiritual transcendence, it also expresses a parallel paradoxical quality of sadness...it instructs us in two crucial American concepts, the loneliness of space and the sadness of time...
...theory go on forever: it ends only with the last out. Football binds itself to the existential tragedy of the clock. Did not Nietzsche write of "acting against time and thus on time, for the sake of a time one hopes will come?" Fleeting time aligns football in metaphysical parallel with life itself: All mortals play with the clock running. Football faces up to the pressure and poignance of its deadline, the official's fatal, final gunshot. Or something like that...
...that reason, it's probably just as well that both efforts, public and private, are proceeding in parallel. "The public sector is learning how to produce very high-quality data," says Maynard Olson, director of the University of Washington Genome Center, which is part of the federal project. "You'll never see private companies doing that." If private companies focus first on the most intriguing genes, while government-sponsored scientists sequence the rest, everybody will profit...
...Tori Amos. Yet this three-part, six-hour adaptation of Charles Dickens' last completed novel succeeds in seeming terribly modern. Considered by many critics to be the author's finest work, Our Mutual Friend takes a look at the perversions of capitalism in mid-19th century London through two parallel love stories. Suspenseful, subtly rendered and well acted (with an especially compelling performance by Steven Mackintosh as John Harmon, a wealthy young man trying to conceal his identity), this Masterpiece Theatre production should put bad memories of 1998's Great Expectations to rest...