Word: proper
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Marlene Dietrich arrived at London's Heathrow Airport one day a few years ago, she was in no mood to meet the group of photographers waiting for her. "Go away!" she shouted. "You are all morons. Why don't you get a proper job?" And they laughed and made her picture and loved her, as they have through the years, for she always gladdened their hearts -- and their eyes. They didn't mind what she said, because they knew they had a proper...
Cody's Books (75,000 titles; Berkeley). The nation's premier student bookstore caters to an eclectic clientele of intellectuals, street people and nerds with volumes on subjects ranging from Asian philosophy to Brazilian literature. "Look at this!" exults owner Andy Ross, demonstrating the proper passion. "We carry Thomas Mann! We have all of Dickens!" Ross sued two mass-market % publishers who, he claimed, discriminated against him by giving unfair discounts to chains. He won an out-of-court settlement but still argues that chains, with their narrow stock of titles and widespread outlets, "limit the availability of ideas...
Representatives from television networks, the government, Harvard and an AIDS interest group battled over television's proper role in portraying the disease at the School of Public Health yesterday...
Television bears a heavy burden. Unlike movies or books or plays, TV shows are expected to do more than just provide entertainment. They are asked to be socially responsible as well. Because they come into the home uninvited, network programs are supposed to uphold proper moral values and teach life lessons: drugs are bad, race discrimination is wrong, women should get breast exams early and often. Sometimes the second task tends to overwhelm the first: that is, a show is so busy doing good that no one bothers to notice whether it is good. The new season's prime example...
...indolence, sodomy and violence. ) Prisoners at the East Jersey State Prison in Rahway played real-life roles in which they confronted juvenile offenders on probation to demonstrate the violence behind the walls. Subsequent studies by Rutgers University showed that the 1978 film Scared Straight frightened the lesser punks into proper living, but the more sophisticated toughs came to view the inmates as role models...