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...Love Monsters really don't want to leave. "All I can do is kiss away the tears," they sing over and over again. But the dancers need a break, and Commissioner Gordon, the second of the three bands, needs time...
Commissioner Gordon enters, blasting out the Romantics' "What I Like About You" and driving us into a New Wave frenzy. There's no resting now; no slow songs for a change of pace. "Time Warp" from The Rocky Horror Picture Show forces us once again to perform--this time it's a jump to the left, a step to the right, our hands on our hips, and our legs in tight. We all thrust our communal pelvises, though this time it hurts...
...bunch of lemmings, we propel each other forward, masochistically trying to be more reckless than the next. Vanity is hopeless and we resign ourselves to looking and smelling our worst. Friends from other parties tell us that Palmer Dixon is like a sauna, the stench unbearable. As Commissioner Gordon wraps up its set, the hockey crowd has, for the most part, left to go to other post-game parties. However, we trudge onwards oblivious to the last break...
...Upjohn Research Manager Gordon Duncan believes that the side effects of Depo-Provera are not serious enough to "preclude its use as a contraceptive." Would he feel the same way if it were a male contraceptive that caused weight gain and a loss of sex drive, as well as the male equivalent of "complete cessation of menstrual bleeding...
Charles Luckman, Lever Bros.' president from 1946 to 1950, and an architect, felt strongly that the era needed an architectural expression. He commissioned Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill to find it for Lever's new headquarters on Park Avenue between East 53rd and East 54th streets. The inspiration for Bunshaft, who later built the glass-walled PepsiCo, Inc., building in New York City and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., was the International Style. It was the architecture of functionalism that had originated in Europe before World War II and had been introduced...