Word: realm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...work under women. Most men can't handle it. They feel, 'I should be the boss.' The trend on campus is male directors, female producers. Harvard men don't want to admit it, but they do have problems with women in authoritative positions. Comedy is a very male-dominated realm. I am the only woman who has only done comedy. [As a director] I have my hands in everything...People are taken aback. If I were a man, they wouldn't be. It's a general cultural stereotype. A woman in an authoritative position is seen as a bitch...
...only was this not an exchange--it was language imposed on Hill--but there was also no consent on the part of Hill. Even in 1991, women are still being labeled as the provocateurs in the realm of sexual harassment. For one reason or another, a woman who makes such allegations is assumed to be crazy, vindictive, or the stereotypical "Woman in the Attic." This case is no different from others. As the senators questioned Hill, they suggested in their tone, "Little girl, are you sure you're not lying...
These days, however, manufacturers are going to greater lengths to exploit consumers' unwary nature. Critics charge that cosmetics promotion has moved beyond the bounds of puffery and into the realm of unsubstantiated medical claims. "Where is the evidence?" asks dermatologist John Reeves of San Francisco. "It's time for cosmetics manufacturers to put up or shut...
...novel also enters the realm of the story-within-a-story. At one point during a self-explorative visit to Greece, Frank ponders, "Maybe I would write about this. . . I would re-create everything: the cabride, the village and the old men..." This sentence follows upon Kaplan's presentation of these very details. Nifty plot device...
Accidents are of course entropy, as is the slow wear of tire treads or the blur of alcoholic vision that suddenly turns all your raging horsepower and tons of steel from an asset into a trap. Too much entropy can deliver you back into Newton's dread realm after all. It was a big, black American sedan that skidded up the mountain road where I live on Memorial Day night, climbed a guy wire and broke the telephone pole. The way the car came to rest -- lights blazing, leaning against the opposite side of the pole from where...