Word: thoughtfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With guests, too, Hall often drops the reserve that talk hosts are supposed to maintain. Impulsive, sometimes off-color remarks frequently slip out. When actress Sally Kirkland told Hall she thought he was wonderful, he replied, "I can tell -- your nipples are hard." (Even Hall admits that one crossed the line.) An interview with filmmaker Spike Lee last June turned into a testy debate over remarks Lee had made criticizing Eddie Murphy for not helping blacks get more top jobs in Hollywood. "It takes time," said Hall, springing to his friend's defense. "And the change doesn't occur...
Lovelock originally thought that some purposeful design organized living things to stabilize the atmosphere and climate. Now he and Margulis believe this regulation is achieved through the simple mechanism of feedback. For instance, in a hypothetical scenario, Lovelock shows that a planet covered simply by light- and dark-colored daisies could control the sun's heat. In this self-regulating model, dark daisies would absorb sunlight and warm the planet, until it became too warm for the dark daisies and instead favored the proliferation of light-reflecting daisies. That would have the effect of cooling the planet until the cycle...
...some cases, letting students be themselves can mean letting them discover that they are straight. Says Martin: "Several young men in the school were molested by male relatives and thought they must be gay. It was apparent to us that these boys were heterosexual, but we had to let them find out for themselves...
...Soviets who are complaining have a clear political bias. Virtually all of their targets are thought to be enemies of Mikhail Gorbachev's program of restructuring society, while the accusers are mostly progressives. If Gorbachev wants to remove accused officials from their posts, the growing scandal could make it easy...
...Medellin cartel, have done almost nothing to boost the price of the drug on either the wholesale or retail levels. Contends Glen Levant, the deputy police chief in Los Angeles: "Surely this must validate our belief that there is much, much more cocaine in the pipeline than anyone thought...