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Unless people address environmental problemsthrough public policy, industrial modification and"profound spiritual change," our society willself-destruct, said Fonda...

Author: By Maya E. Fischhoff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fonda, Turner Visit IOP | 10/6/1992 | See Source »

...believe a lot of people want to see me self-destruct. They want to see me one day with handcuffs and walking into the police car, going to jail. ((They'll say)) 'Look, I told you he was headed for that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law The Bad and the Beautiful | 2/24/1992 | See Source »

...joke. Derrida wonders "what is a word for consuming itself all the way to its support (the tape-recorded voice or strip of paper, self-destruction of the impossible emission once the order is given) to the point of assimilating it without apparent remainder?" Buried in that parenthesis (and several other places) is an allusion to Mission Impossible: this tape will self-destruct in 5 seconds. I thought it was funny...

Author: By J.d. Connor, | Title: Derrida's Cinders | 1/30/1992 | See Source »

...Crimson must win its remaining games with Princeton, Dartmouth and Brown, and then hope that Yale and Columbia self-destruct down the home stretch...

Author: By Ted G. Rose, | Title: M. Booters on Comeback Trail | 10/25/1991 | See Source »

Kerrey dances around everything. So far in his nascent stumping, he's shown a tendency to spout support for whatever sounds interesting or popular, and a refusal to mount a strong offensive against President Bush--without which the Democrats will self-destruct. Beyond some broad strokes of Democratic posturing, Kerrey's just not there. And when you do pin him down, his ideas all seem just to come down to personal experiences--especially Vietnam...

Author: By John A. Cloud, | Title: All Style and No Substance | 10/24/1991 | See Source »

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