Word: unwritten
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most remarkable thing about the social warfare of Webster Groves is that there isn't much. There are clubs and tribes, unwritten dress codes and anxious social climbers who admit to their fear of being seen talking to the wrong person. And yet there is something almost diverse about the divisions: "It's very cliquish here," says junior Lauren Bell, "but each group is actually very mixed--it's not all the jocks, all the preps, all the punks, and I like that." Lauren sometimes considers herself an outsider, albeit a straight-A, cheerleading one. "You become a target...
...audience (not just the disorderly ones) seems to have judged that the organizers violated an unwritten social contract. Things came to a head on the final night; the crowds made bonfires of accumulated trash heaps and danced around the flames--a Dionysian image for the cameras. Rioters, admittedly a small minority of the crowd of more than 200,000, attacked concession stands and threw tables and chairs onto the flames. The more ambitious attacked an ATM. Someone burned a Mercedes near the stage; others set fire to 12 tractor-trailer trucks; propane tanks fired off gaudily...
...Dylan plugged in his guitar, turned on to an electric sound and tuned out the chiding and disgust of fans who felt he had abandoned folk music. With "Maggie's Farm" Dylan broke with what many considered an unwritten contract forged among artists including Joan Baez, Woody Guthrie and other poets who put politically conscious poetry to music. At Newport he shouted back at hecklers who called him Judas; Dylan later proclaimed that he no longer considered himself an anti-war, singularly motivated musician and sought instead to represent only himself and his music...
...Saving PrivateRyan, Movies that score with critics andaudiences alike (Ryan was uniformlywell-reviewed, and its box-office receipts morethan double its nearest Best Picture competitor)have a tendency to dominate the highly politicalAcademy Awards. Another element in the film'sfavor: the Academy will doubtless conform to itsrecently instated unwritten law--the longest moviewins. Sound ridiculous? Believe it. Recent winnersTitanic, The English Patient, Braveheartand Schindler's List all conform to thismoronic but increasingly reliable dictum. Okay,Private Ryan only edges out The Thin RedLine by a few seconds (both films have anofficial running time of 170 minutes), but itsmonster box-office...
...member of the panel that voted for the measure in 1996, Dershowitz stressed the need for specific rules governing matters of harassment, as opposed to the mostly unwritten guidelines by which they were previously judged. He asserted that such safeguards would actually prevent individuals from being accused on groundless claims...