Word: exception
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crowded and smoke-filled room, Elaine, who shied away from Theresa's for-thright illegality, catches a glimpse of HIM. Blond-haired, blue-eyed, muscular, and shyly smiling back at her, the young man at the other end of the bar would seem to be ideal in every way, except for the CCCP stenciled across the brim of his sailor's cap. A sailor and a Communist to boot--whoever said love was going to be easy...
...Harvard Book Store (1256 Mass. Ave.) stocks an interesting potpourri of books from bestsellers to the latest chic literary criticism. Open until 10 p.m. every night except Sunday, the store also offers a good selection of used books at half of their original price...
...Edward M. Kennedy, Ted Jr., tested the political waters of the Eighth. Both Joe and Ted polled very well in the district, but Joe, head of the do-good Citizens' Energy Corporation, had a little more credibility. Now the Kennedy campaign is doing very little except relying on Life and People Magazine profiles as well as printing up buttons that say "I was there" [on the day Joe announced...
...easy listening, easy watching, easy thinking. Yet it is also authentically democratic. Unlike serious painting or dance or poetry, the appreciation of popular culture requires no tutelage or special sensibility, not even close attention. Florenz Ziegfeld and George Lucas create art that is one-size-fits-all. Except perhaps for Roman Catholicism, no other Western cultural genus has been as inclusive as modern pop, so truly classless. Indeed, says Fiedler, Nikes and Garfield T shirts are class camouflage. "One of the functions of pop culture," Fiedler says, "is to make it impossible to spot where a person belongs...
...secrets away." Bird will say that, when teams decline to double-team him, he mourns those lush opportunities to pass. "I love it when I'm double-teamed." Familiar with triple-teams, Olajuwon said, "Bird works out everything in his mind beforehand, but I can't do anything except react to the situation. I never practice my moves because, when the time comes to do them, there isn't time to think of them. They just come." So there are at least two styles of genius...