Word: phenomenons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Kirshner says the phenomenon is only explained as a black hole by default because astronomers don't know of any other theory that fits the data...
Evidence also includes physical marks on the bodies of experiencers, and the common phenomenon of people who awake upside down...
...rage are troubling because, unlike battered women who kill their abusive husbands, defendants in such cases would not need to produce a record of specific life- threatening conditions -- just social and environmental causes. "Crime is not a function of group characteristics," says attorney Alan Dershowitz. "It is an individual phenomenon that must be treated on an individual basis." Asks University of Chicago law professor Richard Epstein: "Anytime you fire a black worker, is he entitled to murder you?" Furthermore, Grier cautions that what he wrote about in 1968 was "not a diagnosis" or a psychosis, simply an observation about...
There are, undoubtedly, some empirical explanations for this phenomenon, for surely at one point it was less of a foregone conclusion that a Harvard-Radcliffe graduate would look to the trinity of law, medicine and business for life-long employment. Some argue that we have witnessed the evolution of a so-called "New Class," with a bias towards hyper-professionalism. Or, we could see the shrunken job market as the primary source of this trend toward steady, lucrative employment...
...Sharp Appetites" consists of three different approaches to the phenomenon of the female body in visual culture. "Fleshbags" is the most ambitious part of the exhibition because it spans the historical scope of the construction of female sexuality. Displays ranging from details of Botticelli's "Venus" to Manet's "Olympia" to Playboy cartoons remind the viewer that this is not just a criticism of a contemporary issue, but rather the problematic perceptions of the female body have been deeply imbedded and indoctrinated into social standards. The responsibility of art is a central issue; female nudes once considered the norm...