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Word: dicks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what was described as the beginning of a council tradition, all first-year council representatives arrived decked in their Halloween costumes. Dick Tracy and a cow were among those in attendance, but others came disguised as some more familiar figures on campus...

Author: By Parker R. Conrad, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Council Dresses Up Routine Meeting | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

...addition, the Erotic Excerpts section reviews sexually oriented movies and films and hosts some daily features like the Photo, Quote and [Sexual] Position of the Day (past examples: the Alpine Downhill and the Fire Hydrant) to fill out the site's content. Keep an eye out for Moby Dick's timeless whale-penis passage excerpt...

Author: By Benjamin D. Mathis-lilley, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Touching a Nerve.com | 10/28/1999 | See Source »

...lightning head on (in a lighthouse), escapes to sea on a whaling ship (dressed, in Shakespearean fashion, as a boy) and takes Captain Ahab (who has the "mien of a weathered god") to her bed. Naslund is helping us, of course, to see the all-male world of Moby Dick through more compassionate eyes, and its protagonist as he might be glimpsed through "pity's tears." Yet what is remarkable here is not the revisionism. Naslund, author of four much smaller works of fiction, actually matches the master, Melville, in all his unearthly poetry and unworldly philosophizing, following...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ishmael, Meet Jane Eyre | 10/25/1999 | See Source »

...strengthen or acclimate plaintiff to the rigors of military discipline." The academy maintains that the women were hazed no harder than average students, and points to the success of the two female graduates and the 15 percent dropout rate of the entering class in 1996. But Mentavlos?s lawyer, Dick Harpootlian, contends that the treatment she received was gender-specific, such as having her shirt set on fire so cadets could see her bra and having nail polish smeared on her body. "This is uncharted territory in gender discrimination law," says TIME senior reporter and legal analyst Alain Sanders, raising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Citadel Snaps to Attention | 10/20/1999 | See Source »

...when the hard sell was hard to avoid, Stan Freberg came along to show Madison Avenue that the commercial could be a miniature work of art--and sometimes of daring. Freberg pitched Meadowgold milk in the style of Gilbert and Sullivan, hawked Pittsburgh paints with a takeoff on Moby Dick, and decked out Ann Miller with a Busby Berkeley chorus line to trumpet Heinz's Great American Soups. He produced radio ads for the McGovern-Hatfield amendment to end the Vietnam War and, perhaps even gutsier, persuaded Pacific Airlines to let him do a series of ads poking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Maestro of The Mike | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

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