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...leave your cerebral tissue in a jar by the door, you'll have a lot of fun watching the fast-paced action, awesome sword fights, and the rollicking beat of this Swords and Silliness flick...

Author: By Thomas M. Doyle, | Title: Ancient Swords and Modern Silliness | 3/21/1986 | See Source »

MARCOS, WHOSE ANNUAL salary as president was $4700, has always denied charges of corruption by claiming that he amassed his fortune from a lucrative law practice. Right. Marcos undoubtedly gained much of his fortune by dipping his hand into the cookie jar of 20 years of American "economic and military...

Author: By Steven Lichtman, | Title: Money for Nothing, Trips for Free | 3/6/1986 | See Source »

SEXISM IS MOST dangerous when it's subtle, when it is so deeply embedded in a culture that it becomes socially acceptable, as Playboy has. And so, you speak out, you yell, you rant and you rave when you recognize this subtle destruction. There is no other way to jar society out of its passive acceptance of the objectification of women, even though in this society it happens to be legal...

Author: By Kristin A. Goss, | Title: Taking a Stand Against Sexism | 3/5/1986 | See Source »

...narrative continues to suffer unexplained breakdowns, lapsing into semi-poetic word association, noises, and archaic spelling. These breakdowns jar all the more powerfully as they occur within passages of complete textual self-control. They undermine the text's tacit claim of logic leaving a wasteland devoid of any structure, any shelter...

Author: By Thomas A. Christenfeld, | Title: Ivan the Terrifying | 3/1/1986 | See Source »

Shultz: Mr. President, excuse me. Would you please tell George to stop hogging the jellybean jar...

Author: By Daniel P. Oran, | Title: Safety in Numbers | 2/24/1986 | See Source »

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