Word: retrospective
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...walks by again, this time taking in the bare breasts as an incidental feature in the general landscape. But that was wrong too, he concludes, because it denied the woman her humanity. A third try proves equally unsatisfactory, since his brief glance at the exposed bosom strikes him, in retrospect, as dismissive and paternalistic. It is during his fourth approach that the sunbather gets up and runs away...
...history if America had been discovered not on its Atlantic side by Christopher Columbus but on its Pacific side by a 15th century Chinese explorer named Ko Lum Bo. As hardy immigrants from the Orient began to establish colonies in the sweeping new continent, Stewart wrote in mock retrospect, they naturally ! adhered as closely as possible to the customs of their native land. Accordingly, "vast areas of the country were terraced and irrigated as rice paddies. The colonists continued to use their comfortable flowing garments, and pagodas dotted the landscape...
Stardom gets to people. Seeing themselves bigger than life onscreen, actors figure their characters' next step is toward deity. So Sly Stallone rewrites history and wins the Viet Nam War in retrospect. Robert Redford turns the gifted loser of Bernard Malamud's novel The Natural into a legend inscribed in fireworks. As for Clint Eastwood, cited in a recent Roper poll as the nation's No. 1 hero, impersonating mere humans is no longer a challenge. So in Pale Rider, Hollywood's first big-time, straight-faced western since Heaven's Gate, Eastwood plays God, or maybe Death. With...
...that Murdoch has substantially increased his stake in the TV game, he may be more eager to help run the show. After all, Rupert Murdoch feels strongly enough about this latest venture to consider forsaking his Australian citizenship. Television and newspaper historians, take note: March 28, 1985, may, in retrospect, be the day that 20th Century-Murdoch was born...
...Goetz has been made more difficult by New York's self-defense law, which permits the use of "deadly force" if a person believes that he or she is about to be robbed, raped, kidnaped or sodomized. The standard is not what judgment a reasonable person would make in retrospect, but what the victim personally believed at the time. Goetz's skittish fears, fanned by a previous mugging, may have proved an asset under New York State...