Word: 18th
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fantastically unlovely gargoyles are the handiwork of Peter Fluck and Roger Law, who trace their roots back to the caricatures of the 18th century. For most of their careers the pair drew spiffing images of political figures for publications ranging from Britain's scurrilous Private Eye to the New York Times. These days, working in a converted banana warehouse along the London docks, the international lampooners produce what might best be described as the Muppets seen through Hogarth's eyes...
...light of this, we were dismayed to find a large ad in the April 18th Crimson seeking applicants to be TWA flight attendants. Moreover, we found it shocking that The Crimson chose not to inform its readership that 6000 TWA flight attendants--85 percent of whom are women--have been on strike for almost two months against a proposed 45 percent cut in pay and benefits...
...that the Constitution is a static document. To the attorney general, the founders' specific views and opinions--rather than the broad conceptions of government and rights which they put down in the Constitution--are binding upon American society throughout the generations. If a right did not exist in the 18th century, it is unwarranted judicial activism for a court to decide that it exists now. Hence Meese denounces the application of the Bill of Rights to the states and rejects the Miranda decision...
...Giants back-up Jeff Hofstedtler is the only one of the four not picked in the amateur baseball draft that year. Schroeder was picked on the first round, Marino on the fourth, and Elway in the 18th...
...doing so, Harvard moved up two spots from last year's 18th place showing and finished one spot ahead of archrival Princeton...