Word: self
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...whereupon his 40-odd classmates judge whether it was a mortal or just a venial infraction. "Thanks, David, for sharing that with us. I'm sure few of us were aware that you can actually purchase the STOP sign you've knocked over." So much emphasis is put on self- expression and broad-mindedness that at one point an instructor found himself equating drug taking with drinking, and upholding both. "You can do alcohol. You can do drugs," he admonished. "Just don't drive!" A stodgy European less accustomed to the same blase acceptance of drug taking -- and a good...
...Barry Cook, who heads a group that analyzes rating methods for the networks, is concerned that the sight of a camera on top of their TVs might make people self-conscious, affecting their viewing habits and skewing the results. And some would be sure to see in the new device a computer-age version of Big Brother's telescreen -- the two-way television that monitored the citizenry in Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four...
DION: YO FRANKIE! (Arista). The Wanderer is his own bad self, back with a fine album full of romantic street toughness and hard-edged nostalgia. This Rock-' n'-Roll Hall of Famer has still got one of the greatest voices that ever wopped...
...consequence of indifference and abuse, children are left emotional cripples, self-centered, angry and alienated. And fated to repeat the chilling lessons they have learned. "These children are dead inside," says psychologist Johnston. "For them to feel alive and important, they engage in terrible types of sadistic activity...
Yeltsin got the seat -- and lost no time in pursuing his favorite themes. Sounding very much like the leader of the opposition, he charged that Gorbachev's recent self-criticism "did not absolve him of responsibility for the failure of his reforms." Punching away at the party apparatus and its privileges, he urged that the "word nomenklatura" -- a reference to the 3 million or so holders of top jobs allocated by the party -- "be dropped from our lexicon." Yeltsin also called for election of a new Central Committee and demanded that the President submit to an annual vote of confidence...