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May 20, 2012

outmoded adj.: démodé [French]

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Remember when popular movies had women in them? In 1994’s top films, the ladies were lucky if the guys let them even drive a bus. Affirmative action is démodé these days, but Hollywood needs some spur to bring women into full partnership with the Tom [Hank]s and Arnold [Schwarzenegger]s and Simba [the lion]. (Time, The Best Cinema of 1994, 12/26/1994, p. 132.)

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