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...young auto-artists. And iconoclasts like Sewell appear to have embarked on a campaign to educate the public against doing just that. "I want people to learn," says Steven Paige, the creator of the "The Dickmobile," a car that looks like a six-foot long penis. "People should loosen up," says Sewell, who designed "The Picklecar." "I want to open up people's minds to new channels of communications." Sewell puts the argument succintly when he says. "Why shouldn't you drive a piece...
...that power lapses April 30, but he wants some still undisclosed changes. An ideological free-marketeer, Nixon has never been comfortable with controls. Neither have his primary economic aides, notably Treasury Secretary George Shultz and Herbert Stein, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. They would clearly like to loosen the system, perhaps by exempting more retailers, landlords and small-to medium-size companies. Most important, however, high Administration officials aim soon to relax the limits on profit-margin increases, which have infuriated many businessmen...
...rugby team. Six days of the week, they are peaceable, nondescript employees somewhere. On the seventh day, they gird up their loins for gory combat. The changing room is where they come and go from their catchpenny Armageddon. In Act I, the men perform their initiation rites, strip down, loosen muscles, get into their uniforms. In Act II, they come off the field of combat, boy-toy soldiers, some broken (George Lithgow) all muddy and bloody. In Act III, after a late-minute victory, they are roaring, towel-flipping conventioneers with a communal shower for champagne...
...Senators have gone on record as opposing MFN as long as Soviet officials continue trying to halt the swelling exodus of their Jewish citizens by charging exorbitant exit fees. The Soviets have privately recognized Nixon's lack of full power over the matter, and may be willing to loosen up on some restrictions in order to ensure clearance of the final hurdle blocking their much-desired access to American technology. Indeed, on the day of the signing, for no apparent purpose other than to signal such a willingness, Moscow authorities granted special exit without any education...
...course has three loops with a little quarter mile hitch at the end. Jones, Durrette. Campbell and Keefe for Harvard and Thomas for Brown were the early leaders in the race for the first loop and a half, with Rojas running behind. "I was running kind of slow to loosen up," he said. "We had a rough week of practice...