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...every day that in the course of such a dance, the person strews off most of his or her clothes to reveal a G-string or lacy black underwear. But lately, students have begun to take advantage of this slightly off-color gift--the strip-a-gram...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sending Strip-a-grams: A Different Kind of Gift | 3/13/1987 | See Source »

...Embarrassing, but funny" said John P. Siracuse '87 of the strip-a-gram his roommates sent him for his 22nd birthday. Siracuse, who was attending a formal dinner in the Winthrop House Junior Common room when the stripper entered, said he was very surprised when the unfamiliar woman walked up to his table...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sending Strip-a-grams: A Different Kind of Gift | 3/13/1987 | See Source »

Siracuse is certainly not the only student at Harvard to receive a strip-a-gram. In fact, managers at Cambridge's Rated R Telegrams said the number of strip-a-gram requests from Harvard students has been on the rise...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sending Strip-a-grams: A Different Kind of Gift | 3/13/1987 | See Source »

Because there are no easy outs from the second circle of hell, that's why. Those stuck there have three choices: getting a personality transplant, being extravagantly generous--buy everyone in your entryway a gram of coke!--or teaching yourself solitaire. As the president of a final club once remarked to me, "The meek might inherit the earth, but they won't get punched for the Porc...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: Guide to Freshman Hell | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

...powerful form known variously as base, baseball, gravel, rock, roxanne and, more commonly, crack. Crack is cocaine boiled down (it makes a cracking sound when heated) into crystalline balls that can be smoked. "Crack is like throwing gas on the cocaine fire," says Manhattan Special Prosecutor Sterling Johnson. A gram of coke costs about $100, but two beads, or pea-shaped pieces, of crack go for $10, enough to guarantee a single user two or three blissful joyrides. Coke sniffers so constrict their nasal passages that they can no longer snort the stuff, while heroin users must constantly search...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America's Crusade | 9/15/1986 | See Source »

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