Word: powerless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...performers--the talent, as they are contemptuously known by TV producers--are actually encouraged to sulk and obsess about themselves. Most of them have the perquisites of being in charge--the higher pay, the glamour, the deference of the staff--without actually being in charge. They are pampered but powerless, like children. And the producers, who have the real power but not the atmospherics, and who usually work harder, also come to think of the on-air talent as children. The resulting incentive structure for the talent is, frankly, inappropriate training for a career as a middle manager...
...what could be called the Camille Paglia syndrome. In her landmark 1990 book, Sexual Personae, author Paglia used intellect to analyze art, history and literature from classical times to the 19th century and argue that it is men who are the weaker sex because they have remained eternally powerless over their desire for the female body. It is female sexuality, she said, that is humanity's greatest force. Her tome helped catapult feminism beyond an ideology of victimhood...
...steamy times, it is becoming largely irrelevant whether adults approve of kids' sowing their oats--or knowing so much about the technicalities of the dissemination. American adolescents are in the midst of their own kind of sexual revolution--one that has left many parents feeling confused, frightened and almost powerless. Parents can search all they want for common ground with today's kids, trying to draw parallels between contemporary carnal knowledge and an earlier generation's free-love crusades, but the two movements are quite different. A desire to break out of the old-fashioned strictures fueled the '60s movement...
...judicial council was never intended to be a special social elite group of persons who, after they become successful in public life, then forget or denigrate their brothers and sisters who still live in poverty and who are powerless and suffer from inadequate and ineffective public representation," Higginbotham wrote in a letter to each of the 840 members of the judicial council, a branch of the NBA composed of current and retired judges...
...same glitch that knocked out up to 90 percent of America's pagers, as well as various radio and TV broadcasts and even many card transactions at gas pumps and ATMs -- PanAmSat's Galaxy 4 satellite has gone a-wanderin'. After the failure of onboard control systems left technicians powerless to stop the key communications satellite from drifting out of position yesterday evening, the binary fabric of our electronic society began to unravel. To the relief of everyone from doctors on call to crack dealers, some pager service was restored early this morning by using other satellites. The rest...