Word: pillar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This stereotypical strong man is taught to be the pillar upon which every woman leans. He feels as though women are his property. This insidious notion of male possession of women limits a woman's domain to that area determined and approved by her male owner. Thus many men take offense to a rape not because the woman is in pain but because his property is damaged goods. His woman is dirty; his ability to protect her has been challenged and found lacking. Furthermore, when a man views women as powerless property, he directly curtails the quality he can achieve...
...grand past. But SBDO has targetted the Concourse as a top priority revitalization project. If the project succeeds, the Grand Concourse may regain some of its old status, and its prosperity may once again spill into its side streets and nearby commercial districts. But if this 40-block pillar of the South Bronx continues to deteriorate, there is little hope for the rest of the area...
...fatherly slave (James Coco), a feisty pharaoh (Richard Pryor), a counterfeit beggar (David L. Lander), an inept angel of the Lord (Paul Sand), a show-bizzy Arab (Dom DeLuise) and an ornery young woman (Laraine Newman) who leaves Herschel to tryst with Goliath and is turned into a pillar of salt. Even in A.D. 1980, the wrath of God should not be ignored: for He brought upon this production a plague of unfunny punch lines and lackluster performances. There are a couple of droll sight gags (Goliath's oversize undershorts hanging out to dry; Coco at work...
...Constitution is paramount, and courts can toss out laws judged inconsistent with it. In the U.S.S.R., laws enacted by the Supreme Soviet take precedence over conflicting provisions in the constitution, which is less a legal pillar than a policy statement; among other things, it limits the work week to 41 hours, and it obliges children to care for and help their parents. While the Soviets do have a Supreme Court, it does not, in effect, have the power to make law, nor can it strike down statutes enacted by the legislature...
...always this way. While it is true that St. Simeon the Younger, the 6th century Syrian monk, perched on a stone pillar for 45 years, he did it not to claim a record but to elevate his soul. It was not until late in the 19th century that the notion of setting a record even occurred in sports literature. Only in the 20th has record-consciousness grown into a worldwide obsession. Scholars say that record keeping took hold mainly because of the scientific revolution's tendency to quantify and rank everything. The preoccupation with records, and the breaking thereof...