Word: paradigm
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with an old pal, croaks a song or two and returns without warning to the attic of reverie. Look behind the electrified hair and the cunningly garbled consonants of Murphy's Buckwheat, a resurrection of the character from the Our Gang comedies, and you will find a showbiz paradigm: the exploitation of a smile and a conspicuous lack of talent into big bucks. Whites are not immune either. He can metamorphose into Gumby, the '50s cartoon character who has somehow aged into a carping Catskills comic; or a late-show pitchman, peddling Galactic Prophylactics and the Funeral...
...struggled barely alive out of a raging torrent and does not enter the water again. No, I think as I look down on this place that is so small, so diminished, so unspecial, this is not Antioch: Antioch was days and nights of vivid action, Antioch was a paradigm of history on which at one time and another every kind of thinker and doer, every kind of greatness and smallness jostled together and shouldered and elbowed their way through all the lights and resonances and colors, all the smells and flavors and motion of endless variations of circumstance and event...
...uniformity of all human beings. As he admits, the book is not only about Samoa, but "is also concerned with examining related aspects of the wider myth of absolute cultural determinism, and with arguing that this now antiquated doctrine should be abandoned in favor of a more scientific anthropological paradigm...
...many ways Frankfurter is pretty much of a paradigm to students here--he is held up as an example of an excellent scholar by professors that knew him and professors that studied under him," said Robin L. Little, a first-year law student. "I would sort of like to find out who he was," Little added...
Parisians, who think of their city as a paradigm of enlightened hedonism, do not quite know what to make of a gaudy new encampment in their midst. It is called the Hotel Nova-Park Elysées. Its Second Empire façade is festooned with flamingo-pink awnings. Inside, which is mostly mauve, the action is known to be exotic and costly. It is said to be the most expensive hotel in the world. Located between the Champs-Elysées and the Plaza Atheéneée, the seven-story, 73-room Nova-Park has mostly Swiss...