Word: selfishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...worker. They are so coarse and reprehensible -- more animalistic when eating than the bug in the back bedroom , -- that there is no point of connection for the audience, certainly no creative tension between expecting the family to take a noble course and knowing why it succumbs to a selfish...
...paintings also portrayed women as "selfish, greedy and scheming," said Van de Pol, adding that the works often showed prostitutes who defrauded, stole and drank...
...Harvard union movement represents a move by women to speak for themselves and to take their work seriously rather than just caring for others and hoping that they will be taken care of by the University, Gilligan says. "For many women that feels selfish and dangerous," she says...
...scored in the Broadway comedy Any Wednesday. Three years later he made a screen impact in Bonnie and Clyde, and Hackman could finally support his wife Faye and three children from his actor's earnings. The couple were divorced in 1985, after 30 years of marriage. "Acting is a selfish profession," he says. "You have to be selfish with your time, your demeanor, your thoughts, and hope the people around you won't suffer too much...
...vote for the repeal is to express a belief that the government should not provide a safeguard for large numbers of productive citizens--in this case labor--against the selfish interests of the few--the contractors...