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...especially when it merges the ideals of romantic love with a perpetual state of rut. The results include "the muck of the psyche," where "sex is nature's dirty work" and "perversity, like chastity, overcomes the bestial drive." The couple's caves of love take many forms: the leafy median of a busy highway, glittering condominium apartments, primitive gold- mining camps and the floor of the Amazon. The sacred and the profane are part of the same ooze. Lyricism mingles with basic Anglo-Saxon in much the way that liberated clergymen in the 1960s flavored their moralism with four-letter...
...spite of revelations about the increasing pathology of the family, escalating rates of divorce and statistics which confirm that the median duration of marriage is a mere 7.1 years, couples continue to take that leap of faith. More than seventy percent of the population from 18-55 years old is married...
...committee did not offer any specific criteria for changing the transcripts, but possible additions discussed yesterday included listing the median grade for courses, course size and a cumulative grade index...
Some committee members said they felt course size and median grade numbersdo not take into account the increased ability ofstudents in harder courses...
...makes his way along Chicago's streets spitting, urinating and shouting "Some money, folks, just a dollar," are too far gone to recognize the depth of their suffering. Others, such as Jack Rumpf, 34, know exactly how low they have sunk. Every afternoon, Rumpf stands on the median of a busy Los Angeles intersection, holding a sign that declares him a homeless veteran who would be happy to work for money or food. Each day, motorists lock their doors as they brake for the nearby stoplight, and Rumpf hears the offensive click. He says that "things have changed" during...