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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first paintings, which carried the motto "Greed is not a virtue," were meant to counterbalance the obsessive drive for money which he felt had overtaken the country. "It was a gentle rebuke to all that crap," he says...

Author: By David J. Barron, | Title: A Friendly Artist Makes Cambridge His Galllery | 10/21/1987 | See Source »

...system has a more insidious effect beyond making cheating like a crap shoot in which you win (steal the answer) or lose (get caught). It creates a situation in which the cheater is not committing a crime again his next-desk neighbor, but against a group of obnoxious people who bump his chair while he is trying to write his essay. It's not that proctors aren't nice people--and it is good that someone will do the task--but they really shouldn't have any effect on someone's decision to cheat or not. A student should have...

Author: By Jeffrey S. Nordhaus, | Title: Let the Games Begin | 8/18/1987 | See Source »

Garfield Takes a Crap, by Jim Davis. The next in the seemingly never-ending series of books about cats, cartoon characters, things that eat a lot, or all of the above. In this novella, Garfield finally has to clean himself of all the food he has eaten over the last nine years. Scatological is the word...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: Turning 30 | 5/27/1987 | See Source »

Nixon always brusquely refused to discuss himself, his character, his emotions. In a 1983 interview, his onetime aide Frank Gannon asked Nixon, "Do you consider that you've had a good life?" Nixon replied, "I don't get into that kind of crap." Gary Hart doesn't either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Kennedy Going on Nixon | 5/18/1987 | See Source »

...been on the battlefront for Israel too long for anyone to throw that crap at us." That was the reaction of Hyman Bookbinder, 71, a longtime leader of the American Jewish Committee, to Israeli criticism of U.S. Jewish leaders in the wake of the painful case of Jonathan Jay Pollard, 32; the American intelligence analyst was sentenced to life imprisonment earlier this month as an Israeli spy. Few could remember a previous dispute that had produced such tension between Israel and its closest friends in the U.S. But then, as Morris Abram, chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel Brothers with Blood in Their Eyes | 3/30/1987 | See Source »

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