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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...They're all meat," a man from Brookfield says. "It's just the difference between sirloin and chuck," he adds, laughing. He explains that he won't give me his name because I have done nothing to prove that he can trust me. The man is in his late thirties. He tells me that he used to live in Massachusets and that he voted for Kennedy in 1960. "That's JACK Kennedy, mind you," as he pounds the table with his bottle of Michelob for emphasis. He turns to watch Vasilios and Pauline close up the bar and says softly...

Author: By Esme C. Murphy, | Title: Primary Indifference in New Hampshire | 2/4/1980 | See Source »

...Bill Loeb (the publisher of the Union-Leader, a fanatical conservative) would run," one old man declares. "I'd vote for him--he's an honest man." The bedrock conservatism of the Granite State is as firm as any in the nation, fed by rational fears of high-priced meat and heating...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Twisting, Skidding | 2/2/1980 | See Source »

...facto self-governing, with administration handled by a food proctor, treasurer, work-list proctor, and a token tutor. Vegetarians can get good nutritious meals, a rare find at Harvard, and even the carnivores are generally pleased with the diversity of the fare, although calls for more meat periodically arise (tough on a low budget). Fresh-baked bread appears every so often. Milk and cookies is a weekly ritual, and people may sit around the living room for hours, unlike the get-a-cookie-and-run strategy prevalent in the Quad Houses. Jordanites can eat at the Houses on a meal...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: Tales from Jordan | 1/23/1980 | See Source »

...Then one officer held him as the others started to slug. "Adrenalin gets going during any high-speed chase," says one officer. "The cops just went crazy. They wanted to teach him a lesson." Says another who witnessed the incident: "They looked like a bunch of animals fighting for meat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Crazy Cops | 1/21/1980 | See Source »

Ellen Foley can cut loose with the power, too, but her training was strictly Broadway, and her big break came on the Meat Loaf Bat out of Hell album, where she undercut Loafs buffalo bellows with some full-throated purring. The most overtly sexual of this quartet, Foley tries for what she calls "the woman-child look," but turns out more like an F.W. Woolworth vision of Lana Turner. "Rock 'n' roll is about rhythm and movement," she reminds us, then supplies a footnote on anatomy: "Your sex is very close to your heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Chick Singers Need Not Apply | 1/21/1980 | See Source »

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