Word: subjectity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what really outraged me was what replaced it: the Home Shopping Club. Until this year, you had to go to New York to hear loudmouthed salesmen trying to hawk junk you didn't really need. Now you can subject yourself to the torture of a Crazy Eddie commercial any time of the day or night, in the comfort of a Harvard dorm room...
...whose appearance was so angelic that no one but her mother suspected the hidden crimes. British Novelist B.M. Gill has given the premise a sardonic twist: in Nursery Crimes, wicked little Zanny repeatedly confesses to several murders but is so widely disbelieved that she concludes her sins are minor, subject to a penance of three Hail Marys. At home, at school, in church and even among the police, grownups fail her. The story's most compelling relationship unfolds between Zanny and her adopted sister Dolly, who witnesses the first killing, of their younger brother. Dolly keeps her guard...
...most world leaders, the Soviet First Lady has not hesitated to become a full participant in matters of substance. Indeed, her forthrightness, in sharp contrast to the manner of her predecessors, may yet prove troublesome for Gorbachev. Last week the New York Times reported that Raisa is the subject of an unflattering underground videotape that depicts her as a vain and extravagant clotheshorse given to stocking up on jewelry and other boutique luxuries during trips to the West. The evident purpose of the tape: to undermine Gorbachev's campaign for domestic reforms...
...That is Chinese for "Have you eaten yet?" and it is a standard greeting in a country where food is considered a subject worthy of the attention of poets and philosophers. For Americans traveling in China, the counterpart seems to be "How is the food?" It is virtually the first question tourists ask when they meet and one that evokes responses ranging from "wonderful" to "terrible." Based on meals and street snacks sampled on a gastronomic long march through China, this visitor can report that all the answers are true. There is indeed wonderful food, as well as some that...
...Everybody in the administration has been revisited on this subject," said Robert Saltonstall, associate vice president for operations, referring to the University's latest affirmative action efforts. "I expect everybody will be resensitized to this. I see it as a stronger initiative than I've seen in my tenure here...