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...well. While we often disagreed with Dean Epps on the multitude at issues which provided the grist for our editorial indignation, we learned to respect a man who invariably treated students at least as seriously as they deserved. We saw Dean Epps confront a lot of immature ranting, and he always replied with dignity and class...
...vindicated, all in her own terms. Madonna is a dream off the back of a locker door, taunting and yielding, a teen male fantasy that slips into an adolescent world where everything is outsize - even and especially (feminists take note, please) all- male heavy-metal bands. She is good grist for gossip, a cute little bundle, media-wrapped and media-savvy. "I think she's the 'It' girl of the '80s," announces Manager DeMann, with no indication of a smile. "She's for the moment. She's now. She and Sean Penn are friends. They were photographed together...
Citizen Hughes contains plenty of grist for a Potomac potboiler: the role of Hughes Tool Co. in building the Glomar Explorer, the secret submarine-recovery vessel; Hughes' plans to run Nevada Governor Paul Laxalt for President; Robert Maheu's part in a half-baked CIA plot to poison Fidel Castro. But the book's chief merit is its direct access to the mind of a callous and frightened man. His fears about antitrust suits, Las Vegas competition and staff loyalty pale before his phobias. Dreading germs, he dictated a "Procedures Manual" for handling anything he was to touch: "Wash four...
After refuting the pure biochemical basis for schizophrenia, the classic mental disorder that has been so often studied by biochemists and psychobiologists, the authors arrive at the central grist for their mill: sociobiology. In fact, at times, Not in Our Genes seems like a diatribe against Lewtontin's ideological opponent Edward O. Wilson. Quoting Wilson repeatedly. Lewontin points to the entomologist as the prototypical biological determinist...
...alarms have also proven to grist for the mills of some social anthropologists in the House. "If creates a lot of good gossip to see who comes out with whom" in the early morning, said Eric D. Grunchaum...