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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...your activities in Florida should be getting one of your hearty compatriots intoxicated to the point of complete helplessness while on the beach, and then covering his or her face and chest with various lewd witticisms in sunblock. Party games like this coupled with the requisite amount of beer-guzzling and sun-worshipping, and you will have a dream vacation which will only cost your self respect, $300, and five-eighths of your functional grey matter...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Doctoroff, | Title: A Harvard Guide to Hedonism | 3/23/1988 | See Source »

Gore is a combination of St. Alban's polish and down-home charm, Harvard intellectualism and backwoods shrewdness. He is almost as at home wearing pointy cowboy boots as clunky wing tips, drinking Corona beer in a rowdy bar as sipping Chablis in a Georgetown salon. But not quite. Now, in an effort to reposition himself, Gore the cerebral technocrat is coming on like a fiery champion of "working men and women." His problem is making the transformation credible. On the stump, he attempts to heighten emotions simply by raising the volume of his voice. Though he has fought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Profiles In Caution | 3/21/1988 | See Source »

...course, all the participants agreed, there are other reasons for public animus toward the press, including such familiar problems as invasions of privacy and lack of fairness. Inevitably such confessional sessions begin to sound like those jock beer commercials: "More accuracy!" "Less arrogance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Newswatch: Credibility At Stake | 3/11/1988 | See Source »

...fact that final club members aren't your typical oppressed minority. You can test this by looking at what their reaction would be to the removal of their special status. Final club members would be disappointed if you took away their male-bonding luncheons, fine houses, and beer parties with Wellesley women. Women, however, would be very pleased to have access to the final clubs' resources and connections, to be paid equally for equal work, and to be free from sexual harrassment at the hands of men well-trained in sexism. Women at Harvard are a minority; final club members...

Author: By Mitchell A. Orenstein, | Title: Getting Off the Fence | 3/10/1988 | See Source »

...some kind of initiation rite. Eight men and two women took turns standing at attention outside Vons supermarket and shouting a song to a stern-faced man 75 ft. away. They all seemed oblivious of the curious onlookers, who were licking ice-cream cones and sipping soft drinks and beer on an unseasonably hot afternoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Welcome to Hell Camp | 3/7/1988 | See Source »

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