Word: quotient
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact, the eight autobiographies seem to have been chosen more for their diversity quotient than for their relevance to the style-versus-truth dichotomy which the author has posed as his central question...
Only the young and the supremely self-confident could view such a task with equanimity. For as Michael Korda sagely observed in one of his treatises on modern success, "Desks can tell us a great deal about people's power quotient." Another year shackled to a black vinyl Daily Planner would be the final indictment of the drab ordinariness of my workaday life. As my power quotient tumbled beneath even that of Michael Dukakis, gone would be those wistful dreams of a corner office and secretaries heralding my daily arrival with eager chirps of "Good morning, Mr. Shapiro...
...attending thrice-weekly after-hours classes held at Martin Luther King Jr. High School. On a recent afternoon, he was at the blackboard trying to figure out fractions. "Which one is the numerator?" the teacher asked. He pointed to it and then, on cue, to the dividend, the quotient, the remainder, the divisor, the denominator. His fellow cast members gazed intently at the blackboard chalked full of figures. On the wall was a poster from another Broadway play, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/ When the Rainbow Is Enuf...
...Philadelphia youth on hit albums like 1965's Why Is There Air? In the '70s, he turned Fat Albert into a Saturday cartoon series, and his kiddie- conscious commercials for big-time sponsors like Jell-O helped earn him one of the ad world's highest Q (positive-recognition quotient) ratings, a rank he still holds. In his first solo TV series, he played a high school coach; it ended after only two seasons, in 1971, but by the '80s he got the formula perfectly tuned to the popular funnybone. After raising five children of his own, Cosby...
...tradition states, she is not supposed to go. Each dares to be a woman, even if it means not being thought a lady. But within these contours one can spot distinctive felicities and failures. Three of the films sink under the weight of earnestness (Marie), whimsy (Maxie) or scuzz quotient (Jagged Edge). In the others, two fine actresses can be seen at their resourceful best, fleshing out a character (Sweet Dreams) or camouflaging the void within it (Plenty...