Word: symptom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...symptom of discrimination--it's an affirmative of traditional American values...
Many Easterners, particularly white ones, look at Wright as a symptom of an ugly, ultimately passing phase in American culture. In point of fact, Eazy-E was a thoughtful entrepreneur who helped start the careers of Dr. Dre and Ice Cube (although he exchanged angry words at times with both former N.W.A. members...
...sphere of investigation to a boredom understood as "the kind that appears to be caused by not having enough to do, or not liking the things one has to do, or existing with other people or, in a setting one finds distasteful," that is, she disregards boredom as symptom of depression, anger, anxiety, or other malaise. She focuses on the upper classes, and pays special attention to the relation of gender to modes of experiencing or confronting boredom; as a result her study is resolutely, though not radically, feminist...
...Lord's annointed, we find, performs like any of God's lesser creations. The color of his urine is the subject of much interest in the film - during his madness, it is as blue as his blood (a symptom of porphyria). George doesn't neglect any of the other bodily functions either. "Saving your presence, I will try a fart," he informs his Lady (Helen Mirren). He is equally uninhibited...
...string of security problems at the presidential home, was labeled today by press secretary Dee Dee Myers as the result of an all too violent society. "We have a problem with too many guns on the streets, too much violence and I think this is just a symptom, yet another symptom of that," Myers said. Investigators have found a bullet in the state dining room of the mansion, while three others fell short of the apparent target and were discovered outside. There are still no leads on the identity of the gunman. The First Family slept through Saturday night...