Word: seem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...When one of our players makes an aggressive move, we can't seem to finish the play off," Harvard Coach Peter Roby said. "This win [over Vermont on Saturday,] will prove to them that they can beat a tough opponent on the road. The return of James should help in the same...
Sexism is clearly a problem, but things may not be so bad as Family Feud makes them seem. The response that most men I know had when I told them what happened on the show was to ask "Who the hell did they survey?" Far more men at Harvard would give a reasonable response, simply because many of us have been made aware of unconscious sexism by our peers...
...family must take six weeks of training in such subjects as personal budgeting, pest control and basic home repairs. A system of fines is imposed on residents who break the rules. "Being poor doesn't give you the right to be dirty or lazy," she says. Though the bylaws seem downright harsh, in six years only five families have been evicted for breaking them...
Some of the changes seem laughably overdue. One daytime soap producer, observing that network censors no longer monitor his show regularly, says he is more likely to approve language that was once prohibited: "It used to be that you couldn't say, 'My God!' I let it go by now. You could say 'hell,' but you couldn't say, 'You go to hell.' I would allow that...
...course, battles between producers and censors continue to rage. "We have discussions with them every week about various lines," says Marshall Herskovitz, co-executive producer of ABC's thirtysomething. "Network TV still has a terrible attitude toward sex." With regard to political controversy too, the networks seem as timid as ever. Shootdown, the recent NBC movie about the downing of Korean Air Lines Flight 007, was altered at network insistence to soften its charges of a U.S. Government cover-up. Midnight Caller, already the target of protests from homosexual groups over a segment on AIDS airing next week, was forced...