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Dates: during 1980-1989
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AFTER working together all of last year, the Minority Students Alliance (MSA) and the Undergraduate Council's Ad Hoc Committee on Minority and Women Faculty Hiring had managed by the spring to convince most undergraduates that the University needed to intensify its efforts to recruit minority and women faculty...

Author: By Daniel B. Baer, | Title: Where is Faculty Hiring This Fall? | 11/14/1989 | See Source »

Cigarette ads were banned from TV in 1971, but tobacco companies are finding new ways to get their names on the screen. Last week consumer-products giant Philip Morris, the world's largest cigarette maker, for the first time broadcast commercials designed to boost its corporate image. The ad, a tribute to the Bill of Rights, makes no overt reference to smoking. Even so, the Philip Morris name is almost synonymous with cigarettes, which bring in about 65% of the company's total profits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CIGARETTES: Not Out of the Picture Yet | 11/13/1989 | See Source »

...Punjabis who are most at home in Delhi to be particularly brash entrepreneurs and deride the type as the "puppy," for "prosperous urban Punjabi who is young." But where the consumer itch is involved, even ordinary Indians are not above one-upmanship. Onida, a television manufacturer, runs a national ad campaign with the slogan, "Neighbor's envy, owner's pride...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India Puppies and Consumer Boomers | 11/13/1989 | See Source »

Bruce (Pier Carlo Talenti) has a problem. His relationship with his gay lover, Bob (Andres Irlando), isn't satisfying, so he places a personal ad in the hopes of meeting a nice female companion. Prudence (Patricia Goldman) answers the ad, but becomes a bit disconcerted when Bruce openly admires her breasts, announces that he is bisexual and cries at the first sign of rejection. The initial encounter ends badly, and both rush to their analysts in an effort to find out what went wrong...

Author: By Adam E. Pachter, | Title: Schizophrenia | 11/10/1989 | See Source »

Durang pokes fun at the hectic pace of American life by having Dr. Framingham insist, "Our society is fastpaced, so I have fast ejaculations," and he demonstrates the falseness of modern relationships by having Bruce and his analyst invent a personal ad "guaranteed" to attract women...

Author: By Adam E. Pachter, | Title: Schizophrenia | 11/10/1989 | See Source »

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