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...sperm-killing agent, nonoxynal 9, is not unique to The Encare Oval "but is an active ingredient in several other products (Conceptrol, Delfen, Koromex, Ortho-Creme, etc.)." The FDA thus concludes that The Encare Oval should be considered "no more or less effective than the other vaginal contraceptive drugs available." The actual use/failure rate for these products is 20-30 percent, and according to Our Bodies, Ourselves are, thus, best used in conjunction with a condom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Beware of Oval | 12/8/1978 | See Source »

EVEN WHERE the effort has been substantial, the Sun Day campaign is likely to have minimal appeal. Americans are as unprepared for "communal, free" energy as they were for unwed mothers and organic apples. Talk about "soft" energy alternatives conjures up notions of Carvel or Dentu-creme, neither of which seems the likely source of progress and power in this country. Furthermore, Sun Day sponsors and others defined solar energy so as to include "indirect" solar sources, such as manure and windmills, that do even less to lend credence to the idea of a solar "strong America...

Author: By Steven A. Wasserman, | Title: Sun Day Sermon | 5/1/1978 | See Source »

...group of female law students paid $50 for a creme pie, which they threw in the face of Howard Gutman, a first-year law student whom the auctioneer called a notorious male chauvinist. However, the auctioneer said, "Gutman isn't really a male chauvinist, he's just a good sport...

Author: By James L. Tyson, | Title: Law School Men Bake Cakes for ERA | 4/15/1978 | See Source »

Newbury Street on the first sunny day in a week has almost a carnival atmosphere. No cotton candy or ferris wheels. Rather, sidewalk cafes with Cinzano ashtrays and people drinking creme de menthe and talking about Art and Life and Death and "Darling, did you know that Miranda has run off to Haiti with a jazz musician...

Author: By Diana R. Laing, | Title: Carnival Beside the Arctic Ocean | 9/22/1977 | See Source »

...touches of outward normalcy--a good eye for fashionable apparel, decidedly hetero leanings, and a good old-fashioned motherly instinct--and dash with an urge to write whacked-out tales for her beloved fellow "crazies" in a bulky ledger. Mix the two together and what do you get? Creme de la Outrageous!, of course...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Creme de la 'Outrageous' | 9/14/1977 | See Source »

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