Word: distinctiveness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more at home listening to the Brandenburg Concertos than the Clash. A veteran of rock radio, Pittman is an apostle of "narrowcasting" and "psycho-graphics." He believes in cable's ability to reach a specific audience, in this case, ages twelve to 34, whose members offer a distinct marketing profile. Apparently Madison Avenue is being convinced. Although MTV has yet to break even, so far 100 national advertisers have pushed their products on the service...
...primitive quotations to get past the conventional groupings of modern art history-the litter of isms that tells us so little about the real meanings of art-and to rummage painfully between the layers of her own makeup. What equivalents can art find for depicting femaleness from within, as distinct from the familiar conventions of looking at it from outside through the eyes of another sex? What can it say about inwardness, fecundity, vulnerability, repression or resentment? How can it furnish a different substratum of meanings for the body? It is to such questions that Bourgeois's sculpture turns...
...Ph.D. in Astrophysics from Harvard in 1971, is believed to be the only one of the 79 U.S. astronauts with a Harvard background. Selected in 1978 as a mission specialist for the shuttle program. Hoffman belongs to a new breed of space scientist--a generation of astronauts quite distinct from the toughened test pilots who grabbed the world's attention during the pioneering Mercury. Gemini and Apollo programs...
...this theoretical framework does not fit the real picture, and the guilty- but-mentally-ill verdict often compels a jury to compromise inveterate legal tenets. It effectively converts the distinct (though subjectively determined) insanity threshold into a large gray area of rights violations. Jurors reluctant to risk setting a legally insane man free face the irresistible temptation of reaching the "middle ground" of guilty but mentally ill. Instead of finding a defendant guilty but mentally ill only after resolving the question of sanity, jurors would likely agree to return such a verdict at the outset of deliberations, sparing themselves both...
...years when the Quad was still under Radcliffe jurisdiction. Harvard officials basically distributed extra students equally among the River Houses, which can accomodate crowding largely through the use of living room space and large bedrooms. But when the Quad Houses came under the Harvard system--and after the architecturally distinct Mather House, New Quincy, and Leverett towers were added--equal distribution became a thing of the past...