Word: function
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...appointees (in no way tainted by Watergate) sometimes broods: "It is much too easy to destroy a President." The fact is, it is not easy at all. The American governmental system gives tremendous security to a President. He can sustain severe political defeats, even scandals, and still function reasonably effectively as President. What he cannot do after defeat and scandal is pose as the supreme embodiment of American history and purpose or some democratic monarch by divine right. But he was never meant to be that-even without defeat and scandal. It may be that the greatest service of Watergate...
...insisting that this is part of the treatment. Voyeuristic therapists sometimes ask couples to perform under observation, a practice that Masters considers acceptable only for research purposes, and then only when the participants are sexually untroubled. Otherwise, what often happens is that already disturbed couples find they cannot function sexually when watched. That upsets them further, and their performance in private becomes even more unsatisfying. In some clinics, clients are even filmed engaged in both homosexual and heterosexual acts-thus becoming vulnerable to blackmail...
...Radcliffe is an idea: that of equal educational opportunities for women. This is her historic and continuing function, one which remains valid even after many traditional obstacles to the education of women have been surmounted. The task is not complete...
...Because [the office] may not fit in structurally is no reason to eliminate its function in the university," Mitchell said yesterday...
...Brando's famous "everything outside is bullshit" line while Rivette's effort enriches the film with a ring of additional depth. The film-within-the-film approach in L'Amour Fou lacks the gimmickry and inside-joking of the similar segments of Tango: in Rivette's film the function is real, and Sebastien is even helped in his direction by seeing rushes of the television film...