Word: objecting
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...this interest in androgyny betrays Engel's masculine frame of reference. Since the Dior look of the 1940's, women's clothing has become increasingly masculinized. Designers have gradually eschewed the classic Marilyn Monroe shape. Sometimes in the name of making a woman less of a sex object, but the alternative clothes and silhouettes have almost always been masculine. Broad shouldered jackets, business suits, ties, women's briefs; all were taken from the classical men's look, and the word androgyny rarely described there innovations. But if a man wears makeup-Holy Praxiteles! The sexes are becoming confused! Women adapting...
...Jonathan craves sex, Director Met Domski lets you see little more--either in Jonathan or on the documentary shots and wandering appendages aren't even clever. Predictability enough, the object of Jonarthan's desire. Marilyn, is attracted to Gene--Jonarthan sex tutor. There could be plot and character development in this love triangle, but it is left to wither, just as completely as the movie does...
...trickiest political problems has been the arrival among the refugees of Ethiopian Jews, called Falashas (the Amharic word for strangers). The remnants of an ancient tribe that has kept alive Jewish religious practices, these Ethiopians became the object of a secret evacuation by Israel, code-named Operation Moses. According to various estimates, between 3,000 and 7,000 of them reached Israel before word of the rescue operation leaked out. Nimeiri, whose government is a member of the Arab League and has no diplomatic relations with Israel, was embarrassed by the spotlight on Sudanese cooperation in the resettlement and ordered...
...other aspects of insularity as well, and these have been well documented. Predecessors of mine have filled this page in years past with reams of statistics suggesting the narrow career-minded focus of most Harvard students, and they are largely correct. It's not so much that I object to my classmates' overwhelming decision to pursue law, business, or medicine--all worthwhile professions--as to the unthinking way in which many seem to hop on the assembly line. It is no new insight to say that Harvard students are conformists, nor would it be novel to note the insular nature...
...other object of rage is the New York subway, and the authorities for permitting it to deteriorate to its current sinister, menacing state. The New York subway is a place where the rules nominally apply, but only nominally. The problem is more than the breakdown of law. It is the breakdown of order. "The absolute amount of serious subway crime is small--38 reported felonies per day," editorializes the New York Times. "The larger problem" is "graffiti, vandalism, harassing passengers for handouts. The pervasiveness of that mischief generates fear that a system millions must ride has slipped out of control...