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...that is the key to pulling off any affectation. You must not look like you're trying to do anything. Use any excuse or alibi--I like it, I think it looks good, it's all that was available, I did it on a dare--but never ever admit to an affectation...

Author: By Elizabeth L. Wurtzel, | Title: Nose Rings and Narcissism | 12/12/1988 | See Source »

...system to competitive party politics and insure that candidates for public office will be those who demonstrate broad popular support, rather than those who slavishly follow the dictates of the PRI hierarchy. As it now stands, the PRI fields the slate of candidates, meaning that those public officials who dare to buck the party establishment quickly find their careers in jeopardy...

Author: By Andrew J. Bates, | Title: Mexico on the Brink | 12/6/1988 | See Source »

...dare call our pay, benefits and larger issues like respect and dignity in the work place mundane. If you want to pursue absolute truths, look at the facts. A majority of employees voted for the union and the administrative law judge found that we did so in a free and fair manner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Larger Labor Issues | 11/22/1988 | See Source »

...male is Stanley Kowalski without the sex appeal, the female a masochistic Judy absorbing too many Punches. So it is a tonic to meet the Italian Americans in John Patrick Shanley's plays (Danny and the Deep Blue Sea) and films (Moonstruck). The residents of Shanley's Little Italy dare to express their feelings in street poetry whose melodic line is closer to Verdi's than to Bon Jovi's. In his new off-Broadway play Shanley goes further, announcing that these days it is the women who have aerobicized their hearts and the men who are love-sick. Shanley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Moonstruck In Lower Manhattan ITALIAN AMERICAN RECONCILIATION | 11/7/1988 | See Source »

...week Michael Gipson did not dare to leave the three-room apartment he shared with his girlfriend and their infant son in Rockwell Gardens, the public-housing project with the highest crime rate in Chicago. Gipson rightly feared that the Chicago Housing Authority would throw him out because his name was not on the apartment's lease. His solution: marry his girlfriend and become an official tenant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chicago: Get Married Or Get Out | 10/31/1988 | See Source »

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