Word: couchful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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From Puget Sound to Pennsylvania Avenue, typewriters clack at kitchen tables and computer screens glow in closets. Who cares if the roast burns or the dog sheds on the couch? Not the scores of homemaker-columnists who are busy pounding out their copy. Such trifles must wait their turn behind dreams of hitting it big like Bombeck...
...Dunster "people have had glass broken into their rooms." Leonard I. Ganz '84 of Lowell House recalls of his sophomore year: "you would hear a bang on you door at 8 o'clock in the morning, five construction workers would come in, smoking cigars, sit down on your couch and watch TV. Eventually one would pull out a razor and start scraping paint...
Dworkin and MacKinnon couch their discussion in terms of establishing equality between the sexes, but their real complaint is that women don't receive equal respect. Pornography is a double insult; it denigrates women and has fun doing it. But turning to the law to endorse a stiff-necked Victorian worship of womanhood's worth is hardly an answer. It implies that there is a moral right to extract respect from the disrespectful. A widespread perception of feminine inferiority infringes on the real equality of the sexes, but this perception must be changed by conversion, not coercion...
...prices are enough to send anyone to the couch. Some chairs go for $5,500, sofas for $6,200 and Architect Michael Graves' maple, brass and lacquered wood single-bed unit fetches a breathtaking $19,500. But Memphis' business-minded president Ernesto Gismondi, who also owns the highly successful Artemide line, is pushing for more marketable designs and prices. Memphis' latest edition sports straighter legs, more illuminating lamps and affordable price tags. "Fust," a metal-and-wood side chair by De Lucchi, for instance, sells...
Poverty is everywhere. At night I would stare into Russian apartments, through street-level windows, and gaze at the chipped paint, the broken couch, the dingy, dreary, stone floors...