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...group asks Summers in the letter to confirm that, “except as may be required to conform to the Solomon Amendment, or as a matter of free speech,” discriminatory employers are not welcome on campus...
...amusement-park ride should be classified as a "common carrier" rather than as entertainment. If the court upholds a lower appellate decision, such California parks as Disneyland and Knott's Berry Farm will fall into the same category as buses, taxis, elevators and ski lifts--and will have to conform to a standard of "utmost care" rather than "reasonable care." That could mean lower speeds, more restraints and fewer thrills...
...conform to such a standard would be out of character for the 22-year old from Bellevue, Wash., who is constantly defying expectations and refusing to fit into a preconceived mold...
...camera to a twin-lens Rolleiflex that produced the weighty figures in a square format that became her trademark. It gave her pimply drag queens the mighty tonnage of Rodin's Balzac. Our predispositions still place pressure upon the images in the hope of making them conform to conventional expectations. This is a dwarf, file under "Curiosity"; this is a retarded child, file under "Compassion." But the pictures keep refusing to fit into those files. In that refusal is the enduring power, both of the pictures and the people...
...industry who made billions while their customers died of lung cancer. But, like so many feminists who see an aggressive phallic symbol in every missile, monument or oak tree, extremists have stepped to the forefront of this movement. These people no longer seek to inform the public but to conform it to their way of life and, with disturbing speed and success, have made smoking illegal from the laid-back lounges of SoCal to the dimly lit dives of Southie...