But certainly she embodied, in her rather brief career, many fairly significant shifts in how women were viewed, on television and in the culture, something I can't imagine any of us expected as we gazed through the dim, choking haze of adolescence at that mane of golden hair and perfect smile and wondered why the gods were so arbitrary with their gifts.
Signing up for Arbitrary Day, an open "Secret Santa" gift exchange among users, opened yesterday and ends June 25.
Guardian Australia has previously reported on arbitrary rule changes around visitors and gifts, including "farcical" drug tests blocking visitor access and the alleged refusal to allow gifts of baby food to detained mothers.
Nonprofit leaders need to proactively determine how their organizations plan to handle cryptocurrency gifts to avoid making arbitrary or "emergency" decisions when dealing with donors.
Then, in 1954, Khrushchev, with the arbitrary capriciousness of a satrap, made a "gift" of the Crimea to Ukraine.
Not having a precedent for such a gift, they decided on the rather arbitrary figure of $400.
"Arbitrary Day has no theme and is purely about giving a gift because you feel like giving," the social website reads.
What applies for social circumstances should also apply for such gifts, both these factors being purely arbitrary from a moral point of view and requiring adjustment.
Both figures, like the earlier five-year limit, are arbitrary and suggest that the right to vote is a gift, to be granted or withheld by the government of the day.
"It is common knowledge that Black Friday is now the highest grossing sales day in the UK, but this may get superseded by Singles Day [because the] concept of gifting feels a lot more meaningful than an arbitrary sales day".
State economic development offices sprang up, handing out gifts of contracts more frequently than a slot machine turns up cherries and in a manner just as arbitrary.
