Word: compassion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...appropriately ambiguous nickname. And, should we forget that Molly is a good girl by her occasional use of profanity and her rather unscrupulous coterie of nighttime acquaintances who work the Hollywood strip, she diligently does her homework after each trick and (yes) even comes to hotel lobbies equipped with compass, protractor, and graph paper...
...critics of the press agree with James Atwater, a former TIME senior editor who is dean of the University of Missouri School of Journalism. Says Atwater: "We need much more self-examination and a whole flock of ombudsmen. This is a very heady business, and we need a moral compass...
...Between Friends, which will appear on HBO six times between Sept. 11 and Sept. 30, the affection between Taylor and Burnett rings true, at least initially. Burnett plays a real estate agent who has lost her spouse and her moral compass in a suburban landscape of manicured lawns and unfaithful husbands. She embraces promiscuity as a form of psychic masochism. Her new friend, Deborah Shapiro, is a wealthy divorcee with an enormous empty house that she calls "my Tara." Trained only "to walk down stairs with panache," she is no longer a Jewish American princess but a full-fledged dowager...
Penck's obsessive loquacity and mock-ritual imagery are apt to cause inflation. "He is like the North Pole," rhapsodizes Curator Cowart, "that place which attracts the navigational magnetic compass from afar but repels and disorients it when approached." The more modest truth, for those with unwiggled needles, is that Penck's imagery is often so obscure that he seems to feel no special responsibility to the system he deploys. A lot of the paintings are mumbo jumbo, and their formal attributes can be remarkably trite-cliché figure-ground reversals, careless scrawly drawing...
...route back to the farm, Tadashi and I came to a crossroads Dosojin carved with compass directions...