Word: scientistic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WHAT WE HAVE here is across between Road Warrior and Decline of Western Civilization a fact which is readily apparent about ten minutes into Repo Man. The Road Warrior bit opens the show as the film begins with a deranged scientist named J. Frank Parnell streaking down a barren L. A. highway in a 6-4 Chevy Malibu A policeman sets off after him on a motorcycle, pulls him to the side of the road, and inquires what is in the trunk, which seems to contain something hot--literally. I wouldn't look in there, Parnell intimates, thereby piquing...
...Cuba this Saturday, thus missing crucial meetings of the rules committee. Other black leaders will carry the case for strong platform planks on such issues as affirmative action in jobs and integration in public schools. "Jackson hasn't been talking about black issues," contends a black political scientist. "He's been talking about his issues...
...Lewis M. Branscom, vice president and chief scientist...
...that the quadrennial vice-presidential sweepstakes are at hand, it is worth remembering that a political ticket nearly always wins or loses on the popularity of the presidential candidate. Says Duke University Political Scientist James David Barber: "There is no clear evidence that the Vice President pulls much in the election except as a piece of the presidential candidate's image." Indeed, the importance of the No. 2 nominee may rest in how and why he or she was selected. Notes Hamilton Jordan, Jimmy Carter's chief strategist: "It is the first time people...
Behavioral Scientist B.F. Skinner at Colby College in Waterville, Me.: "Orwell painted a strange portrait of what the world would be in 1984, and across this nation this spring, commencement speakers will be comparing that prediction with what has actually happened. Do we believe that war is peace? That freedom is slavery, that ignorance is strength? We used to have a Department of War and a Secretary of War; now we have a Department of Defense and a Secretary of Defense. But we have not gone as far as Orwell predicted and renamed it the Department of Love...