Word: raves
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SEXISM IS MOST dangerous when it's subtle, when it is so deeply embedded in a culture that it becomes socially acceptable, as Playboy has. And so, you speak out, you yell, you rant and you rave when you recognize this subtle destruction. There is no other way to jar society out of its passive acceptance of the objectification of women, even though in this society it happens to be legal...
Although the Cambridge Public Works Commission flooded Cambridge Common five times, the baseball field never developed into a true skating rink. "A few people tried to skate on it, but it didn't get rave reviews," Alcorn said...
...Jamelle Holieway. The reversal Holieway represents could not be more dramatic if he had been switched to the position from defensive back. There have been black quarterbacks before, even in the South, but this one is being praised less for his legs and arm than for his head. Opponents rave about Holieway's ingenuity, his resourcefulness, his ability to lead and make sudden decisions, almost invariably the right ones. As patronizing as this would have once sounded, almost nobody is meaning it or taking it that...
...small feat to abandon successfully what's often been called the most innovative rock band ever, the founding fathers of punk, the band that did heroin when everyone else was doing acid. Critics can rave about the Velvets ad nauseam, and they often do. When the critics have positive words for the new Lou, they're usually in light of his former greatness...
...work of art to put his death in some sort of perspective, but I don't have the talent. I could write a glorious indictment of drunk driving in this country and the mentality that fosters it, but statistics won't explain why he died. I could rant and rave against God (or no God), but that would not bring me any closer to the big WHY, a question everyone will have to face and will fail to answer...