Word: mates
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...interrupted. A female punk rocker materializes, shouting obscenities and menacing Miles with her electric guitar. She is outraged by the doctor-nurse scene, convinced that Miles has written it to degrade women: "Ever since I got into serious liberation, you been takin' the mickey. I got your number, mate. You're the original pig. Numero Uno." Despite the leather gear, dyed hair and garish makeup, Miles recognizes this apparition as an old, inspiring friend. She is Erato, the classical Muse of lyric poetry and, by historical default, of fiction as well...
...Curriculum is Harvard's answer for worries about the survival of liberal education. Both describe the withered remains of the General Education Curriculum, Harvard's last answer to worries about liberal education. One has jokes, the other statistics. Both help. And as they say in "Boats," full steam ahead, mate...
...epidemic has clearly made married philanderers extremely wary. Few things cool extramarital ardor like the specter of passing on an incurable disease to a mate and then having to explain where it came from. A chemical engineer from New York knows how the one-night stand can go these days: on a business trip a beautiful woman invited him up to her room. He went, but was troubled by thoughts of herpes sores. He asked the lady outright. Her denial was not enough; he was impotent. "I wanted to go through with it," he confided to a friend...
...lifelong disease as a memento of the event. Some marriages and many relationships end in the discord and lingering suspicion caused by herpes. When only one partner has herpes, anger is a heavy factor, and so is emotional overload: the herpes sufferer leans too much on the mate and the tottering relationship collapses. Says Psychiatrist Elisabeth Herz of George Washington University Medical Center: "Don't expect to cry on the shoulder of the partner. That's what drives couples apart...
Dole concedes that he often used humor to wound rather than amuse. "I'm very competitive," he says. "And it's easy to move from competitive to combative." Dole's most acerbic period came after Gerald Ford chose him as running mate in 1976. "They needed somebody to go out in the brier patch," Dole recalls. The Kansan tore into the Democrats with a barbed zeal that turned off many wavering voters. In his televised debate with Democratic Vice-Presidential Candidate Walter Mondale, Dole's jokes did not fit the serious forum and his partisanship went...