Word: trend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trend towards similar career goals seems to be continuing in the Class of '81, Robert J. Ginn, director of OCS-OCL, said yesterday. This spring, 21 per cent of the men and 20 per cent of women is the senior class signed up for interviews with business recruiters visiting campus...
...movie lets us down when it could be scariest. The cache of corpses the monster has stored looks like a rubber limb collection from a joke shop. And, most heinous of all its crimes, it succumbs to the nouveau-horror trend of the 1970's; rather than leave us feeling all was in jest, or solved, as Hitchcock or Agatha Christie would, the movie ends with one of those "You thought it was safe, huh?" twists which is now a DePalma cliche. By then, we've started rooting for the monster...
McCarthy's indictment has given critics the confidence to claim that fiction has become a moral basket case. With persiflage and pronouncement, but without sound argument or distinction, McCarthy has written an uninteresting and inaccurate book, and has embellished a trend that does not deserve to be followed...
...what other people think we are thinking and doing. More than anything else, I was shocked by the attack from the Third World groups; they called us racists, and pointed to a series of what were (in our minds) perfectly explainable incidents which they said represented a racist trend. Surely, I said to myself, they could have picked a better target. After all, this was The Crimson they were talking about--the newspaper that supported the NLF in Vietnam, that conservative alumni found distasteful enough to give the University money to start up a competitor, that has always asked Harvard...
...flaws, Sweeney Todd will attract an audience. In this age where we crave "cheap" thrills people will mindlessly spend $25 a seat for a package expertly stuffed with surprises, shocks, and the star appeal of Ms. Lansbury. Using art's name, Messrs. Sondheim and Prince lamentably succumbed to this trend, producing an illconceived, ill-begotten extravaganza. Their estimable talents should not be wasted in this manner...