Word: trend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would undoubtedly receive uniformly more positive reviews than it has. Sex Comedy provides at least a half dozen good chuckles and a continuous grin. At the beginning of a new phase. Woody Allen is learning to be both funny and warm. This film lacks polish, but a new trend displays potential...
...people have apparently been duped. The substantial drop in loan application noted recently was claimed by the Right as a victory. The many non-needy GSL users had simply phased themselves out, argues the White House. In fact, the trend probably results from the Washington bureaucracy's filling the winter months with widely varying threats as to what exactly would happen to the loan program and then creating a substantial log jam by delaying the release of eligibility tables used by most admissions officers. Colleges, already receiving aid applications for the 1982-83 term, could not process applications until...
...attitude toward issues such as affirmative action. Meanwhile, an increasing number of Jews had become established economically and socially. They began to look out more for their personal interests. Shorris says, and these tended toward salaries and summer homes. Next: the small step into politically conservative circles. Encouraging the trend was the widely held belief that a conservative like Reagan would be a loyal supporter of Israel. That's the whole story as far as Shorris is concerned...
...reflected the themes sounded throughout the term. In one decision, for example, a moderately retarded Pennsylvania woman was denied federal review of the state's termination of her parental rights over her three children. The ruling, as Yale Law Professor Paul Gewirtz points out, hewed to the clearest trend of the term: "limitation of access to federal courts." A new force pushing this movement was Sandra Day O'Connor. Says Gewirtz: "She came in with quite a clear agenda on this and other aspects of federalism. And she's not cautious; her decisions were quite bold...
...stars-or, for that matter, care to know. Gary Grant, Bette Davis, Laurence Olivier, Richard Burton and (in separate covers) Elizabeth Taylor are merely the foremost subjects of the latest crop of biographies, autobiographies and memoirs. Dozens of these volumes have been gushing off the presses, and sometimes the trend seems to be toward not just revelation but multiple exposure: Joan Crawford and Errol Flynn have been dealt with in a couple of books each, and three biographies of Gary Cooper issued forth almost simultaneously...