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...intelligent pattern or two. Taylor and Calnek aren't so dumb as to take themselves or the show seriously (a Battle of the Sexes satire in drag?), but they abandon the sterile money/sex/class warfare formula of recent years for some genuinely fresh jabs at popular culture. TV commercial references abound--"This is mutiny, men!" "Yeah, it'll take more than Bounty to clean up this mess." Missionary Position's Sun Myung Moon-esque paradise turns out to be McDonald's, with the preacher at his pulpit dispensing McNuggets of wisdom. Moon and McDonald's are, in fact, recurring themes throughout...
Bookstores abound in Harvard Square. But how many bookstores today sell hand printed, hand-bound books in the first or second edition? The Kress Library of Business and Economics, located in the Business School's Baker Library, preserves the fine art of printing and bookbinding...
...area which magnifies the gap between classes. It is a burden on the rich for whom "rules proliferate, law suits abound, and the cost of legal services grows much faster than the cost of living," Bok observed. The rest of the population have "their legal rights severely compromised by the cost of legal services, the baffling complications of existing rules and procedures and the long, frustrating delays involved in bringing procedures to a conclusion." In essence, Bok concluded "there is far too much law for those who can afford it and far too little for those...
...reduce pollution would be to get stoves to burn at higher temperatures so they would emit less waste. Manufacturers have developed smaller, more efficient stoves. But poor burning practices abound. Homeowners sometimes toss green, moist wood into their fires, along with rubbish and newspapers. (The EPA recommends wood that has been air-dried at least a year.) Mark Loding, a chimney sweep who practices his Dickensian craft in the Charlevoix-Petoskey-Harbor Springs area of Michigan, is appalled by the fire making habits of his customers. Says he: "Chimneys are clogged with nasty stuff. People are putting in too much...
More attention must be given to European-American relations. Misunderstandings abound. To many Europeans, Reagan looks like a warmonger. To many Americans, Europeans seem unaware of the Communist threat from the Soviet Union and contribute too little to NATO. The causes of such misreadings are clear, but we cannot afford them...