Word: stiffs
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Dworkin and MacKinnon couch their discussion in terms of establishing equality between the sexes, but their real complaint is that women don't receive equal respect. Pornography is a double insult; it denigrates women and has fun doing it. But turning to the law to endorse a stiff-necked Victorian worship of womanhood's worth is hardly an answer. It implies that there is a moral right to extract respect from the disrespectful. A widespread perception of feminine inferiority infringes on the real equality of the sexes, but this perception must be changed by conversion, not coercion...
...here and there, the trip worked. Even the stern People's Daily ran extraordinarily puffy coverage of Reagan day after day, and the 30-minute Chinese TV news devoted up to ten minutes a night to the capitalist leader. "We have a self-satisfied glow," said a usually stiff-necked White House adviser. "We're walking around with smiles on our faces...
...looked like a scene from The King and I, in which a proper English governess frantically coaches Oriental courtiers in the rudiments of Occidental custom. All week, for five hours a day, 140 uniformed Chinese waiters and waitresses marched in stiff single file through an empty hotel banquet hall, placed plates on cloth-covered tables and then returned to remove them. The drills were but one of many painstaking preparations for the "reciprocal banquet" President Reagan hosted in Peking last Saturday night...
...venturesome Sun and Evening Sun (combined circ. 349,000), with a fine political staff and seven foreign bureaus, gamely fight against the Washington Post. Long Island's vigilant and bright Newsday (circ. 525,000), which was on TIME'S 1974 list, gives the New York Times a stiff battle in local and state coverage. Other regional papers simply cannot overcome the limited newsiness of the areas they cover. That description applies to such praiseworthy dailies as the Milwaukee Journal (circ. 303,000), the Louisville Courier-Journal (circ. 178,000)-both on TIME'S 1974 list...
...Real World is successful as a criticism of the soulessness of the business world, but the book flounders on Knowlton's style. The stiff, third person narration employs an overbearing, occasionally patronizing tone, and suffers an annoying weakness for moralizing. Knowlton feels compelled to describe everything, thus cluttering the book with distracting details. The lengthy descriptions of Caleb's office, for example, should have been trimmed, and more attention given to the woefully rushed moments of tension between parents, lovers and bosses. But paradoxically, these laborious description also redeem the book and make it worth our attention, no matter...