Word: reflective
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...before) prompted a string of songbook shows. None has matched the verve or style of Ain't Misbehavin', and none has come close to the rowdy, raunchy yet infectious humor of its songs. Waller's connection with them varies from authorship to merely having recorded them, but they coherently reflect his view of life as meant for play and pleasure...
There is something disturbing about Quayle's reluctant admission that he used pull to get into the Guard. In this, Quayle, scion of a wealthy family, reflects a different tradition than does the well-born Bush. The Vice President, who eagerly enlisted as a Navy aviator during World War II, was reared by a code of strict moralism that reviled special privileges and taking more than one's share. Quayle appears to reflect the more permissive and probably more common outlook that wealth and connections provide certain protections against the vicissitudes of life and that these dispensations...
...quintessence of a tabloid art form. Balfour opts for convolution: THE TOASTER POSSESSED BY THE DEVIL or, better, THE DOG THAT SHOT ITS OWNER. All voice serious concern that unimaginative headlines -- GIRL, 11, BECOMES GRANDMOTHER -- are replacing zany eye-catchers -- CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS USED MAP PREPARED BY SPACE ALIENS -- that reflect the best work of twisted minds. Ex-Fleet Streeter Sheila O'Donovan, known to Examiner readers as Lovelorn Columnist Sheela Wood, praises what she considers America's restrained tabloid sensibility. She quit a Hong Kong tabloid in protest after the editors put a large blob on the front page with...
However, higher education officials inWashington challenged Carnes' assertions, sayingthat the increasing college costs reflect a needto keep faculty salaries competitive and higherprices for library and other materials. Theyargued that since the cost of the goods andservices colleges and universities purchase (theso-called "Higher Education Price Index") aregenerally higher than the nationwide CPI tuitionhikes are bound to exceed inflation...
Many blacks are apparently convinced that it is. When the New York Times and WCBS-TV News conducted a poll on attitudes toward the justice system last January, only 28% of the blacks questioned felt that the courts are evenhanded toward white and black defendants. Such sentiments may reflect, in part, black discontent with the handling of several recent racially charged events in New York City, including the Howard Beach and Bernhard Goetz cases. These impressions also point to a deep-rooted distrust of the system, engendered by years of legally sanctioned injustice against blacks and other minorities...