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...ahead and lick them--just for the taste of it...sponsored by Diet Coke and the Committee to Re-Elect George Bush...

Author: By Tom S. Hixson, | Title: Lick Me, You Fool ! | 2/25/1992 | See Source »

With tuna for lunch every day, my tongue began resembling Bart Simpson's whose sitcom principal ordered him to lick thousands of envelopes...

Author: By Allan S. Galper, | Title: Hallelujah, He's for Real ! | 2/24/1992 | See Source »

...that way? So far, none of the gender scientists have figured out whether nature or nurture is more important. "Nothing is ever equal, even in the beginning," observes Janice Juraska, a biopsychologist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She points out, for instance, that mother rats lick their male offspring more frequently than they do their daughters. However, Juraska has demonstrated that it is possible to reverse some inequities by manipulating environmental factors. Female rats have fewer nerve connections than males into the hippocampus, a brain region associated with spatial relations and memory. But when Juraska "enriched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sizing Up The Sexes | 1/20/1992 | See Source »

...about to happen to you.' We stripped the script down and built it up. Now the family is in a lot of pain. They don't trust each other. Sam has had an affair whose wounds -- his wife's, his child's, his own -- he's trying to lick and live down. Going in, he's guilty, poor guy. Leigh is watching life ebb away as she nears middle age; things are bad, and they're going to get worse. And Danny despises them both. She needs to break out from them, no matter what danger she might break into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Filming At Full Throttle: MARTIN SCORSESE | 11/11/1991 | See Source »

...those who stand to profit from the collapse of the Soviet Union lick their greasy lips over the possibilities of a vast, now-tamed Russian marketplace, let us hope that they pause for just a minute to mourn what they are destroying...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Not a More Perfect Union | 9/23/1991 | See Source »

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