Word: section
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...article on Bullock focuses on her "method acting," alleging that she "founded a Cultural Studies program at Berkeley, became Counselor on Urban Affairs to Governor Wilson, and edited the business section of the Los Angeles Times" in preparation for her role in the movie "Demolition...
...films which make up the series provide a good cross-section of the styles and formats available to filmmakers and are quite entertaining in the meantime. Everything from documentary to animation is shown...
...accurate? With any survey, there is a risk that respondents will exaggerate, omit facts or otherwise fail to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Especially on sensitive subjects like sexual behavior. There is also the risk that the sample will not represent a fair cross section. Both of these problems have plagued earlier sex surveys, including the landmark reports issued by Alfred Kinsey in the 1940s and '50s. The team from the University of Chicago that produced the new study was determined to do better...
...training (his expertise was the gall wasp), he compromised science and took his human subjects where he could find them: in boardinghouses, college fraternities, prisons and mental wards. For 14 years he collared hitchhikers who passed through town and quizzed them mercilessly. It was hardly a random cross section...
Among the less reticent were people who are paid to discuss sex: therapists, Cosmopolitan editors, Penthouse publishers. "Dr. Ruth Westheimer suggested that one option left out of the study's sexual-preferences section was sex under the armpit," says New York correspondent John F. Dickerson. "Helen Gurley Brown explained her 'rent a husband' theory, where an older single woman can get a married man who 'would be happy to oblige because he's probably not getting it at home.' And Bob Guccione told me he had never met a man who had not masturbated or a woman...