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...benign little in-jokes like the Statue of Three Lies or pained quips about trekking to the Quad. This was a Harvard tradition like the presence of concentrations that are notoriously uncomfortable for female students, like the lack of a women's center bigger than a coat closet and the dearth of tenured women and minority faculty members...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Love Story? | 9/22/1989 | See Source »

...Frank was manipulated by a sleazy adult with more than 10 prior convictions. Lukens turned to hired sex because he had an admitted fetish for Blacks, according to the child; Frank said he turned to prostitutes after 45 years of repressing his sexuality. Afraid to come out of the closet, Frank said he had to turn to illegal methods of fulfillment...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: Evaluating Barney Frank-ly | 9/21/1989 | See Source »

...artist," Frank declared last week. "Thinking I was going to be Henry Higgins and trying to turn him into Pygmalion was the biggest mistake I ever made. I thought I could help him reform." Frank said he has had a faithful male relationship since coming out of the closet, and he will seek re-election in 1990. He expects voters to judge him on his record as a hardworking, liberal Congressman, and explains, "The public didn't suffer. I suffered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Congress: Barney Frank's Pygmalion | 9/4/1989 | See Source »

...least adapter Earl Mac Rauch (The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai) knows that the only way to pin Belushi and Hollywood is to wax satiric and surrealistic. When the dead Belushi prowls his old haunts in a morgue sheet that looks like a toga out of the Animal House closet, the film almost has style to match its guts. So does Chiklis' boldly percussive performance. But Wired's take on Belushi is so lame and gross that it validates the verdict of a cop in the movie: "He's just another fat junkie who went belly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Saturday Night Dead | 8/28/1989 | See Source »

...while the others watched mom make their beds and contemplated room size and closet space, I selected my room based strictly on lower-bunk availability. Top bunks are not my friends. Have you ever tried climbing up a ladder after a 3 a.m. drinking binge...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, | Title: Just Remember One Thing: Avoid Any B-31 Room | 7/7/1989 | See Source »

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