Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Anthropologist Robin Fox's conclusions about the struggle for control of the society [Sept. 22] are basically sound, but he is wrong when he says that the aspiration among modern women to jobs in the marketplace is a foolish deviation from the norm. Evolution itself is a deviation from the norm. If men and women are not allowed to evolve and change, our society will stagnate...
...rent on his apartment in a less-than-stylish section of Venice, Calif. Now he finds himself something of a celebrity, sought by editors, television and movie producers, and talk-show hosts. "I've been lucky," Bradbury admits. "We hanker after instant fame, but that's wrong; if fame comes too quickly, it spoils us. For me, recognition came at just the right pace...
...business. Having thus cleared the air, Agee then settled back to observe the American business community set aside its minor woes (a plunging stock market, a Middle East war) to concentrate in rapt fascination on the matter of Agee and Cunningham. Does he wonder where it all went wrong...
AMHERST, Mass.--The busdriver for the men's soccer team took a wrong turn in downtown Amherst yesterday, ending up at the University of Massachusetts instead of Amherst College. Nothing else went wrong, though, as the varsity booters put it all together to blast the Lord Jeffs...
...kind to say that something goes wrong with the film; instead it slowly dawns on the audience that the entire concept behind the movie is rotten, corrupted and contemptible. Slow fades, sudden silences and softly focused scenes are so calculated that they sour as soon as they hit the screen. One is left less with wonder than with the "romance" of lower Washington St. where you can touch live naked women for a quarter as they writhe in the obligatory high-heeled shoes and Victorian garters. Someone, somewhere wants to make Reeves a star, and it seems that they will...