Word: rigid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...older, more extreme version of Fundamentalism is still around, symbolized most visibly by South Carolina's Bob Jones University (enrollment: 5,500), which did not admit blacks until 1971 and still forbids interracial dating. Chancellor Bob Jones Jr. of the superstrict institution (supervised dating, no pop music, rigid dress code) almost seems to take pride in what he jokingly calls the school's "lunatic-fringe" reputation...
...past five years, Chinese Leader Deng Xiaoping has instituted sweeping economic reforms, moving away from rigid state controls and closer to the free-market system. Capitalism advanced a step further last week when the government announced that price controls in Peking would be lifted on more than 1,800 food items, effectively raising their costs by some 50%. The price reforms had already been introduced in 22 other cities and autonomous regions...
DIED. Rudi Gernreich, 62, innovative Austrian-born fashion designer whose attempts to free women's clothing from rigid structure and the tyranny of French couture resulted in youthful, boldly colored, free-flowing styles such as tank dresses, miniskirts, the tank-top bathing suit, the see-through blouse and--most controversial--the topless bathing suit; of lung cancer; in Los Angeles. The 1964 strapped, topless suit sold 3,000 copies, outraged the Kremlin and the Vatican and afterward overshadowed the reputation he deserved for more influential work...
...people at not-so-well-established schools in Connecticut coastal communities claim that not a lot has changed in the intervening three-and-one-half centuries, calling Cambridge's Ivy institution "stodgy," even "rigid...
...Horacian swipes on Catholic dogma revolve around the childhood romance of two well-intentioned social misfits. Eddie (Russ Thacker), a self-professed late bloomer, struggles to reconcile his "sinful" impulses with the rigid doctrine he confronts in school. Becky (Blackman), an overweight outcast taunted by her classmates, stumebles through her formative years asking Cod why she has been singled out. The two meet as youngsters in elementary school, and what blossoms is a classic (if admittedly mushy) romance spanning more than a decade of Catholic schooling...