Word: sakes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...expects America to return to the days of the hoop skirt, a number of experts do see signs that the wildest expressions of sexual "liberation" may be ending. "I think there's a shift back not toward conservatism but toward an end of sexuality for sexuality's sake," says Jack S. Boozer, professor of religion at Emory University in Atlanta. "What you had in the '60s was like being thrown into a forest and told there was no infallible reference point, everything was equal. The person in that forest is just as culturally deprived as the victim...
...weeks Carter had been underscoring his concern about the fate of the energy bill by threatening to sacrifice his trip abroad for the sake of a last-minute, all-out onslaught on Capitol Hill. The threat had become a promise, and it was a promise he had to keep...
There, as here, what Makavejev terms a "barter system" exists between the creative film-makers and commercial/political interests. Producers are willing to make some concessions for art's sake if the film-maker concedes a few personal, artistic points for commercialism...
...given the fans exciting, winning basketball for many years, and we'll continue to give them exciting ball--hopefully also winning ball. The people in Boston are so used to winning though, I hope they don't get fickle. They will hopefully just come out for the sake of watching good basketball...
...this day, in its use of sexual and national stereotypes and in its heavy-handed symbolism. (The "Figure of Death," dressed in a long black robe, drops in every now and then to disrupt the circus-like goings on.) It is a hard show to like for its own sake. But the current Mather House production succeeds in making Stop the World both enjoyable and ultimately moving, in spite of itself...