Word: outgrown
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bookstores that one can best see how daily life has outgrown the political system's controls, how the campaign against "spiritual pollution," so rhetorically fierce, is flouted with such abandon. While elsewhere in China, government booklets like The True Story of Tiananmen Square are prominently displayed alongside issues of Vogue, Elle and Glamour, you have to hunt for the lies at Wangfujing, Beijing's largest bookstore. The section labeled "Ideology and Political Education" actually displays books titled Modern Woman, Smart Woman, Handbook on Love and Life and dozens of how- to monographs like Eighty-Eight Points on Developing Public Relations...
...women who have outgrown the unforgiving itsy-bitsy bikini, a new wave of fashionable beachwear is helping camouflage the bulges and sags...
...while her mother watched." Her demanding father, a bank manager who quit his career to manage his daughter's, squandered most of her earnings in bad investments. The money was irreplaceable; like others of her Hollywood generation, the child woke up one morning to find that postwar America had outgrown its innocents. The features continued until she reached the age of 21. But Shirley was effectively finished at 17, the year she married actor John Agar, soon to begin his descent into violent alcoholism...
Second, I would like to correct a quote which states, "The lesbian community has outgrown [Seventh Sense]." The implication of this comment is completely inaccurate: Seventh Sense is not a lesbian group. Seventh Sense is a confidential, women's discussion group about issues of sexual orientation, and its motto has always been "no assumptions (about anyone's sexual orientation)." The article would have done well to take that advice, as illustrated by the mistaken paraphrasing in the quotation above. Obviously, Seventh Sense has very specific goals which do not satisfy, nor were they intended to satsify, the needs...
...fear and comfort from its doctrines, and finally outgrew it. The achievement of the Walt Disney Co. under Eisner has been to recapture the audience's childhood and extend it into adolescence and beyond. Today customers keep coming back to the movies and theme parks long after they have outgrown short pants...