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When the lights flip on in a room infested with cockroaches, they all jockey for the nearest dark hole. This is because roaches are nocturnal, says Gary F. Alpert, an entomologist who gauges and makes recommendations on University cockroach problems. "If you see them during the day, you know you've got problems," he says...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Common Cockroach | 4/8/1985 | See Source »

What looks like an orgy, flirts with scandal, and sells like hot cakes? How about Obsession, the new fragrance from the guy who brought us women's jockey shorts, Calvin Klein, 42. "Who hasn't felt passion beyond reason?" asks Klein, who reasons that you do not have to go beyond passion to make a successful advertisement. His lubricious jeans ads and languorous underwear pitches have now been joined by a kinky perfume campaign. The print spot, shot by Photographer Bruce Weber, shows three apparently naked men coiled around a similarly unclad woman, all bathed in an inky blue tint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 25, 1985 | 3/25/1985 | See Source »

...These are all the things that make a local station 'Boston'," he added, The former disc jockey--known on the air as "Woo-Woo"--predicted that his station will compete more for the attention of radio listeners, in particular, popular stations WBCN and WXKS, than the national video channel...

Author: By Shari Rudavsky, | Title: Debut of Free Video Channel May Steal Time From Radio, MTV | 2/26/1985 | See Source »

Penn, meanwhile, will rote its 4-1' league record to Brown and Yale this weekend, while the rest of the league will jockey to stay out of last place...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: A Winning Tradition to Rival the Titanic's | 2/13/1985 | See Source »

Police Lieut. Vincent Mora has just slipped between the sheets with Casino Singer Linda Moon when he hears a click at the door of his Atlantic City hotel room. With the barrel of his gun, he scoops up his Jockey shorts, pulls them on and is ready to meet the intruder. Wild shots are fired. The would-be killer escapes into the street with a chilly Mora in vain pursuit. On his way back to Miss Moon, he meets a drunk who gives him some sporting advice: "You should a bet your underwear. You never know when your luck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sleaze Factors Glitz by Elmore Leonard | 2/11/1985 | See Source »

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