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...results of these experiments leave little doubt that exposure to aggressive models heightens children's aggressive responses to subsequent frustration. As shown in Fig. 1, children who observed the aggressive models exhibited approximately twice as much aggression as did subjects in the nonaggressive model group or in the control group. In addition, children who witnessed the subdued nonaggressive model displayed the inhibited behavior characteristic of their model and expressed significantly less aggression than the control children...
...FIG LEAVES ARE FALLING, by Comedian Allan Sherman. Husband, 42, falls for girl, 22-but picks himself up and sticks with his wife...
...from routine. Angered by daily raids on Israeli-occupied territory by Jordan-based Arab commandos, Israel had decided to make use of its air superiority to strike back. El Fatah, the largest and most aggressive of the commando groups, had its operations headquarters in a half-acre grove of fig and olive trees just outside Salt. The Israeli jets were out to destroy it in the heaviest Israeli air raid against the Arabs since...
...postage-stamp stage, a man and a woman appear, wearing only card board and painted fig leaves. The woman also wears a black rubber bra with red rims designed to resemble huge sunglasses. What follows is verbal love play and a kind of spoofy striptease in which the twosome gingerly play on the supposed skittishness of the audience. After a mock wedding ceremony in front of a barber pole ("Do you, Pandy, take this girl Mandy, because she is randy?"), a climactic libation scene occurs. Pandy and Mandy put on green mitts the size of baseball gloves and sponge each...
...career on a noble scale without achieving true nobility, indulged in vainglorious heroics without fully emerging as a hero. He made his boldest imprint on history when, frustrated by the Pope in his desire to divorce his first wife and marry Anne Boleyn, he roared: "I care not a fig for all his excommunications. Let him follow his own at Rome, I will do here what I think best." Turning the currents of the Reformation to his own purposes, he declared himself the earthly overlord of his subjects' souls, founded the Church of England, and implanted the idea...