Word: avuncular
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jonathan Marks, associate professor of anthropology at Yale University, says that there are two public images of scientists--the "avuncular Einstein" and the "malevolent Frankenstein." Both, according to Marks, can be defined as classic nerds...
...alley. Cosby, now 56 and with a No. 1-rated sitcom under his (expanding) belt, not only resurfaced in I Spy Returns on CBS but also played a police crime consultant in The Cosby Mysteries, the first of a planned series of NBC movies. Dick Van Dyke, now an avuncular 68, portrays a crime-solving physician in the CBS series Diagnosis Murder, and Gene Barry, 74, is back in Burke's Law, a new version of the '60s series about a millionaire police detective who tools to crime scenes in a chauffeur-driven Rolls-Royce...
...working on his hot rod at 4 a.m. "I can hear my power tools callin' right now," he coos. " 'C'mon, plug us in, we're ready to serve.' " For advice he turns to his next-door neighbor, a Robert Bly disciple whose conversation usually opens with an avuncular chuckle ("Ho-ho- ho-no-no-no, Tim") and ends with an anecdote about tribal customs...
...lead to another harsh stone room with gray video monitors on which scenes of horror are narrated by offstage voices. German soldiers surround a hospital and throw newborn babies out of the upper windows. Men and women stripped of even artificial limbs go to the gas chamber while an avuncular SS colonel insists they will not be harmed. At the exit, the backlighted words of Simon Wiesenthal offer the museum's justification for re- creating such pain: ONLY KNOW THAT HOPE LIVES WHEN PEOPLE REMEMBER...
...prostitutes in Ho Chi Minh City, more than in 1975. Drug addiction is a growing problem. That in turn is boosting petty crime. Dozens of pickpockets, beggars and touts prey on unsuspecting foreigners in the square in front of city hall, within the gaze of an avuncular statue of Ho Chi Minh. Says a local official: "This is the price we must pay in order to leave our impoverished state...