Word: beaverisms
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...platypus is an animal with some duck-like and some beaver-like properties, but it is neither. Similarly, if one plays close attention, in the past few months Bill Clinton and Bob Dole, have subtly shifted their positions and have begun to sound very much unlike their predecessors or even themselves just a few years ago. In the last few months, the two candidates have increasingly displayed their proclivity to say anything, do anything to please the voters. While such malleability is not necessarily a new phenomenon in the American elections, what sets this election apart is the fact that...
...famous at Harvard. She seems surprised that she has become someone that people talk about, but she also admits it's true. "Half the people think I'm a lesbian, half the people think I'm Ty Sheppard's girlfriend, and the other half think I'm really the Beaver Girl." In "The Real Class of '96" (a parody of the short-lived Fox drama "The Class Of '96," which she refers to as "the best idea that Paul D. Cabana '96 ever had"), Thomas played a number of roles, including a cause-obsessed Save the Beaver Girl. But fame...
...fervent as his Catholicism. He was an intimidating, authoritarian figure who revered Senator Joseph McCarthy and Spanish dictator Francisco Franco. The elder Buchanan proudly reminded his brood that they were the descendants of Mississippi Confederates who fought to save Old Dixie. Not for the Buchanans the Leave It to Beaver homilies of backyard-barbecue morality. Pop fostered a sense of clannishness, of us-against-them resentment that made his children ever vigilant. Pat attended Mass each day, prayed every night and made the sign of the Cross before basketball free throws. He studied hard and played hard and probably...
America has left its "Leave It to Beaver" days behind. Today, children are seen as growing up too fast, too soon while their parents race the police to get them back on track. As the call continues for a return to "family values," a disturbing side-effect has emerged in the form of growing support for corporal punishment in homes and schools. While proponents say the practice is an effective mode of discpline, the physical punishment of children raises many problematic issues...
...condom education session itself proved to be as sterile as a "Leave It To Beaver" special. Peer educators (meaning high school kids) training their classmates handed out an innocuous looking ditto: "How to Use a Latex Condom Properly." The sixth of 12 steps reads, "Place condom on erect penis prior to any contact." Step 7: "Roll condom down to base of penis." Step 9: "After ejaculation hold condom at base of penis and withdraw slowly before erection is lost." Gotta love that class instruction--reading, writing and wrist action...