Word: explains
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although the whole house will not vote on thenew policy, Fraser and the ad hoc housingcommittee held a meeting last night to explain thechanges to interested students...
...Cohn degraded the image of the legal profession while leaving no doubt about his own forensic brilliance, so Warhol released toxins of careerism, facetiousness and celebrity worship into the stream of American culture. He was the last artist whose cynicism could still perplex the art world, which may explain why -- even after he said that art was just another job -- people continued to scan his latest efforts for signs of "subversive" credentials. In fact, his work was no more subversive than a catering service, and as such it fit the age of Reagan nicely. But the Warhol who will survive...
...dancers, have long sworn by its revitalizing effects. Shortly after New York Giant Running Back Joe Morris began getting regular massages this season to relieve hyperventilation, he started to cut loose on his way to a record year. By stimulating blood circulation and oxygen flow through the muscles, therapists explain, massage helps lower blood pressure, speed up healing of injured tissue and aid in keeping muscles supple. But, they caution, it is not a panacea, and it is not recommended for those with circulatory ailments. One thing massage will not do, myths to the contrary, is rub away excess weight...
...from some place called Stanford. Having never heard of Stanford, I took the letter to the Lampoon's special Opening Letters That May Contain Bombs Room and soaked it in lamb's vomit before opening it. (For those of you not familiar with the Lampoon, I should explain that we are so rich, we have rooms for everything, and we have such wild parties, that we almost always collect lamb's vomit at them...
...drug-free America? After all, the President produced a sample of his urine for analysis last year and asked his Cabinet and White House staff to do the same. When he ordered 1 million federal workers in "sensitive" jobs to submit to drug testing, however, he did not explain how it would be administered. The answer came last week, but the complex guidelines seem to create a combination of Big Brother and high school bathroom monitors -- a sort of Big John...