Word: sentiments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Unlike the males in the animal kingdom who primp and preen for the females attention, ugly men in Hollywood think that they can attract the most beautiful women by just rolling out of bed and looking pathetic. Tom Hanks echoes this sentiment in the equally fake and unfunny You've Got Mail. While women starve themselves to achieve the chic skeletal look, men can just hide their love handles in boxy clothes. But double chins and receding hair lines are as apparent as this star-studded movie with a plot that flops...
...barrage of anti-209 student protesters Carnesale suddenly faced at UCLA had little concern for his job safety or adherence to a popularly passed law. In their eyes, Carnesale was their servant, accountable above all else to undergraduate sentiment. If Carnesale would not disobey the law, protesters reasoned, perhaps he could be urged to issue public statements, as his predecessor had, criticizing 209 as harmful to the rich ethnic and racial diversity of UCLA. Despite a student takeover of the main administrative building and raging protests in campus quads, however, Carnesale refused to buckle...
...Pope's intervention in the Missouri death row case was to be expected--John Paul II has made opposition to the death penalty one of his priorities during his tenure--and the sentiment was admirable. But the Pope also opposes abortion and is at best weak in his support of the rights of women and gays. Gov. Carnahan made the wrong decision as a politician when he allowed himself to be influenced by a religious leader instead of by legal argument or genuine moral reversal. As a country, we'll be making the wrong decision if we allow the trend...
...Such sentiment has not gone away. In the 1980s, there was a rash of Japan-bashing whose rhetoric affected not only Japanese Americans but other Asian Americans who were grouped with them. The 1997 campaign-finance scandal involving Chinese American John Huang also demonstrated that the fear of "yellow peril" persists. I don't think the scandal would have been half as pernicious if the donor had been, say, a German American...
...wanted to know the sentiment. From themembers I had talked to we were not gung-ho aboutit," Duffell said...