Word: meannesses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...your Poeportion. Find yourself getting sleepy? Little weak? Sorta drowsy? Recite "The Bells" aloud into a tape deck, pop your recording into an industrial strength ghetto blaster, and let 'er rrrrrip, full volume, for dozing neighbors. Run-DMC's got nothin' on Poe... though they might make a mean team: "The TIN-too-NAB-yoo-LAY-shun of duh BELLS BELLS BELLS BELLS BELLS BELLS BELLS! HUNH...
...that doesn't mean Karl Stevens doesn't philosophize. "I'm thinking about writing a book about this place," says Karl, "I would call it, 'I could help them if I would.''' Karl's title refers to the huddled masses of homeless and unemployed who are the regular denizens of this eating establishment late at night...
...little younger than Bill and the elderly women. One such person is Santos, who I saw in the Square many times before actually meeting him at the Tasty. He sports several earrings and a real smooth mannerism that goes with his jean jacket. This guy also was mean, looking to start a fight with a redhaired guy who sat alone at the table. But Karl refereed and brought the conflict...
...quotations are obviously meant to provoke. According to Professor Harvey C. Mansfield, women "do not constitute a community like Blacks do." What exactly does he mean by the term "community"? It is quite obvious that women have a different social experience which unifies them, much in the way the Black experience unifies Blacks. This assertion is supported by "hard" statistics relating to the connections between women and clinical depression, suicide, addictions, fear of success, low self-confidence and diseases that are almost exclusively female, such as bulimia and anorexia. Such afflictions are not congenital--they are learned. They...
...this scene, one of the guys in the theater said, "Oh, just another sex scene"--a comment to which I replied, "What? That was rape." My friend then responded, "What do you mean? They'd already slept together and everything...." Woah. Consciousness-raising seminars like the one on "Date Rape" have apparently done very little to change certain stigmas. Further, what is all the more frightening in this particular case is that I consider this friend to be a fairly enlightened and intelligent person. He is not some sort of neanderthal and has never shown himself to be sexist...