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Dramatically muddy and dubiously humorous, Taming shares with The Merchant of Venice a modern stigma for its Elizabethean prejudices. If, as some feminists suggest, pornography is anything that shows women in a degrading light, Taming would rank up where with Debbie does Dallas. A large part of the play's humour concerns the attempt of a man to turn his new wife into the slave of his will, not a very funny subjects to the feminists fighting for the positive portrayal of women...
...said representatives from the Quad should be included on the committee because the Quad Houses are in worse physical shape than the River Houses, must deal with Radcliffe's bureaucracy as well as Harvard's, and are affected by a lottery-imposed "stigma...
...easily let go. There can be a rather voyeuristic zeal about such searches for official wrongdoing, and prosecutory momentum, once begun, is difficult to slow. Bert Lance, Jimmy Carter's budget director, was forced to leave office, tried and found guilty of nothing. So great is the power of stigma, however, that when Mondale tried to make him his campaign director, Lance was forced to step down within three weeks. In addition to making other serious mistakes, Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese neglected to report a $15,000 loan to his wife from a friend who later won appointment...
...historic defeat. On the other hand, as key members of NATO, they could not ignore an occasion that brought together the major Allies in an event that was televised across Europe and reported in detail on every front page. Rightly or wrongly, West Germans were made to feel the stigma of a Nazi era that for many of them is as remote as Kaiser Wilhelm...
When it collapsed in 1982, Milan's Banco Ambrosiano left behind a $1.3 billion missing-funds scandal and a stigma on the Roman Catholic Church...