Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have to do this to protect every chick and child in Cambridge," Vellucci said at last night's council meeting...
There are other delicious bits and pieces scattered throughout "10"-Dudley Moore trying to make a cool entrance on a hot beach, and having to throw towels ahead of him to protect his feet from the burning sand; a woman who insists on making love precisely to the rhythm of Ravel's Bolero; a lengthy mix-up involving dentistry, painkillers, the telephone, a telescope, some naked ladies, a swimming pool, a steep hillside and the police. It is really quite indescribable -but gorgeously orchestrated...
...investors looking to turn a quick profit instead of to protect their capital for the long haul often have not done well...
Howard is clearly unhappy with that possibility. For the true villain of his book is a criminal-justice system that fails to protect society from its marauders. There is, however, another villain in Zebra - one that Howard somewhat slights. In concentrating on the crimes, hideous as they are, he does not really grapple with the social ecology that may drive ill-educated, rootless men to acts of such brutality. Still, Howard's pronouncement echoes like a scream on a dark street: "California [has] a bad habit of letting its convicted killers out to kill again...
...hand was a group of citizens who said the new museum would destroy the Square, flooding it with hordes of tourists each day. Even now, representatives of this group--then loosely formed into the Committee to Protect the Environment (COPE)--defend their actions. City Councilor Francis H. Duehay, who says the museum would have brought between 40 and 60 tour buses into the Square every day, was one of these opponents. "Three million additional visitors a year was really an impossible burden for Harvard Square," he says...