Word: womanize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...article begins with the premise that "Something is a bit odd about people who proclaim 'I want to help other people"' and implies that "something" is that these people are stark raving mad. In the third paragraph, for example, the author quotes one woman as saying "What still strikes me, is I'll go to a party in New York, and inevitably the craziest person there is a psychiatrist. I mean the person who is literally doing childish antisocial things, making a fool of himself and embarrassing everyone else...
Everywhere people yearned for news of what had happened around them. On downtown California Street, a crowd gathered around a woman equipped with a tiny battery-operated TV. Playing anchorwoman, she relayed the news to those who could not see her screen. When truncated copies of the San Francisco Chronicle appeared at 7 a.m. Wednesday, people threw quarters at the sellers and shoved one another to grab a copy...
...were only 25 arrests for vandalism in San Francisco, down from the usual 100 or so, though such arrests were a low police priority that evening. Countless residents grabbed flashlights to direct traffic at intersections where signal lights had stopped. In the seedy Mission district of San Francisco, a woman carrying two flashlights, precious as gold under the circumstances, overheard two men discuss stealing one. In a rare spirit of camaraderie, they refrained...
...organizing and attending rock concerts that are intended to pacify restless youngsters. A West German television crew, interviewing East Germans at random the day of Krenz's appointment, turned up evidence of the popular disdain. "He's one of the concrete heads," said a young man. Remarked an elderly woman: "They should all step down and let new blood...
Stacked up against those three white middle-aged men was an anchor team that made a striking symbolic statement. Washington-based Bernard Shaw, CNN's leading political correspondent, is black; Catherine Crier, based at the network's Atlanta headquarters, is a woman. Inadvertently, the choice of Crier, brought in from outside in preference to 150 in-house anchors and reporters, also made a depressing statement about the abiding importance of looks and packaging in TV news. A former college beauty-contest finalist and later an elected Texas judge, Crier, 34, has no journalism experience...