Word: resisted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wins, then her career will be launched as a near prodigy. A loss will hardly be the end of the world. Because there is less pressure on her, it makes sense that she should act the sweet aggressor in their relationship, and that he should be the one to resist romantic distraction from his long-sought goal. It is all very modern and up to date, this role reversal. And in The Competition it is rather agreeable, giving Dreyfuss his shot at representing that new beau ideal, the decent male who is not aggressively masculine. Since Irving seems to have...
...trace of the Luddite violence that threatened the first labor-saving machines of the Industrial Revolution. On the contrary, working with a robot seems to confer status. And, while the machine usually looks less like a man than like a lobster, its human partners often seem unable to resist giving it a name and even lavishing on it a certain metallic affection. When one machine known as "Clyde the Claw" broke down at a Ford stamping plant in Chicago, its human partners gave it a get-well party. Chauvinism being what it is, most factory workers unthinkingly refer...
DADA WAS NOT just another art movement, and its products resist being treated as art objects. In displaying Dada creations as historical artifacts, an exhibition such as Dada: Berlin, Cologne, Hanover, now at the ICA, embalms the spirit of the phenomenon and suppresses its vitality. And in presenting the works as products of a bygone era, the show makes no attempt to link Dadaism to any subsequent artistic endeavors. Drawing such historical connections is not necessarily a requirement for a strong show. In this case, however, the organizers passed up an excellent opportunity to draw parallels with contemporary...
Tuesday morning Reagan set out to capture Capitol Hill and took the place by charm. A nest of ego and pride, Congress is like a haughty cat that cannot resist being stroked and fawned over, and it was purring as Reagan went to work on Democrats and Republicans alike...
...tape, no one has admitted recognizing his handwriting or distinctive Sunderland accent. Now the latest killing and the lack of any breakthrough by the West Yorkshire police is prompting renewed public pressure for Scotland Yard's supposedly more expert murder squad to be called in. Yorkshire officers still resist that idea, pointing out that the Yard never caught its ripper 92 years ago. Said one: "Society is at the mercy of the murderer without a motive...