Word: sweeting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Elvis Presley, the malt shop and the rock concert, the jalopy and the drag racer, white bucks and black leather jackets-for a while in the '50s, two ways of being a teen-ager existed side by side. The poignancy of Grease derived from that juxtaposition: Can sweet Sandy, representing the Sandra Dee side of the coin, find happiness with dangerous Danny, the dark, flip side of it? Kleiser simply flattens out this conflict. It is possible, of course, that Olivia Newton-John does not have it within her to portray a girl deeply tempted to break...
summertime In the sweet summertime...
After many phone calls, Bibesco finally invited her to his apartment and dumped a great album of letters on her lap. "Now, you'll be sweet to me," he exclaimed. "Now you'll go to bed with me. Look what a lovely bed it is ... I thought I was impotent. I have been for months. But you have roused me, you marvelous amazon. Let me kiss your lips." Curtiss put quest before scruple: "After all, I figured, the letters are unique and there are plenty of women who must like this kind of approach or he wouldn...
...weeding out those with faulty brains and patching up their neurological circuitry. Fortunately, the physicians' suggestions never got far beyond the theoretical stage, although in 1970 Mark and Ervin did come out with a semi-popular book entitled Violence and the Brain, intended to advance the notion that, as Sweet writes in the introduction, "one way to understand and control the current colossal problem of violence is to increase our knowledge of brain mechanisms...
Samuel Chavkin's new book presents a series of ideas on quantifying and manipulating human behavior from chillingly over scientific thinkers like Mark, Ervin and Sweet. He is a muckraker--not in the present pejorative sense of needlessly digging out past personal scandals of celebrities, but in the sense of following the fine old tradition of the crusading journalist seeking out corruption or abuse of power wherever it may occur and exposing that evil to the timeless cure of fresh air and sunlight. His book brings out a creeping fascism: in what he sees as a slow rise in scientists...