Word: knowingly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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That men (and women, too, naturally) are products of their environment is a fact we should all know by now, but Burt Avedon's Ah, Men! goes into pedantic detail on the subject, using a few of his own thoughts but mostly those of a rather notable group, including Ashley Montagu, Helen Gurley Brown, Sterling Hayden, Gore Vidal, Michael Korda, George Plimpton, et al., in this dry, humorless tome. There are chapters on Growing Up, Work, Goals and Sex, and the quotes run from the noble (Plimpton: "I went to an English school in New York where we were taught...
...associated with the terrorists themselves, you become a suspect person. Many people just couldn't take that stand, even though they probably had the principle and were opposed to what was going on," Cox explains. But he continues, "Rather worse were the people who made a point of not knowing what was going on. The majority of the newspapers didn't want to know what was going on in regards to the methods being used in terrorism...
...Spanish-speaking papers have abdicated responsibility, Cox and his staff operate as the last barrier to complete state control of the media. He sighs wearily as he expresses his belief that newspapers are the peoples' last resort. "When newspapers crack up, then the lights go out, and you know anything can be done in the dark," he says...
Waits also spent a good portion of 1979 holed up in a Paris loft, collaborating with artist Guy Peellaert (Rock Dreams) on a book of portraits of American heroes, to which Waits has contributed the text. "You know, people like Marlene Dietrich, Mohammad Ali, Meyer Lansky, Pearl Bailey, Jimmy Durante, Adam Clayton Powell...
...pushing himself so hard? Waits' every waking hour (beginning around noon) is devoted to his music, a book, a movie idea. "There's a certain reward," he says. "A very personal reward from all this. But I don't know, sometimes I just want to disappear. Poof! 'Excuse me while I disappear.' Deadlines, schedules, obligations, responsibilities. Sometimes the work just kinda drills. But then something comes along and boom boom -- everything's okay. So what are you going to do? Marry the girl...