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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pray for your sense of the outrageous when Divine eats turd, when the houseboy violates the pregnant hostage being held in the family cellar, when you get a load of how Divine keeps her behemoth of a mother in a baby's crib. You might just find youself in unrepressed stitches. If not, look at it this way--you can finally do something you always wanted to do but were too cheap to carry out: walk out in the middle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In a World Where Flying Men Hunt Elephants......People Will Just Naturally Want to Get High | 3/15/1979 | See Source »

...theory, one solution would be a consumer boycott of oil purchases from any OPEC member that failed to honor its contract commitments. But no serious moves have been made in that direction. Instead, at week's end, Ashland Oil Co. disclosed that it too had grabbed up a load of Iranian crude, and at a price that the company would only describe as "somewhat higher" than prevailing OPEC charges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy: The Oil Squeeze of '79 | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

...might seem unsuitably lofty but for the fact that the group comes from a tradition that uses music not only as an outlet but as a force, an effective instrument of social change. "The record company's making out we're politicians, and that's a load of stuff," sneers Strummer, but Jones may cut a little closer when he recalls the title of his school song, Servants of the State to Be. "It was the high hope that you would become a civil servant," he says. "That was the best you could do. But rock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Best Gang in Town | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

Because of changes in the team's budget, the load has become even greater in the last two years, according to alpine captain Tim Hofer. When the team's last coach left in April 1977, the new guard at the Athletic Department called in the captains and presented them with a $21,000 debt that they had accumulated over the previous seven years. During that time there had apparently been an unwritten agreement between the squad's coaches and former Athletic Director Robert Watson that the team could run up a small deficit every year. The team found...

Author: By David A. Wilson, | Title: Skiing on a Shoestring | 2/16/1979 | See Source »

...Green Line is expected to carry the load for us," Bertagna said, "and they were just super...

Author: By Jim Hershberg, | Title: Icewomen Edge by Yale, 3-2 | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

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