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...cheers everyone up by saying, "Never mind the mess here, honey, let me tell you about world-class squalidness." And then yarns away, maybe, about babies so wet that their diapers give off rainbows (a Phyllis Diller line she loves to steal). Or about her husband, the football watcher, who sits in front of the tube "like a dead sponge surrounded by bottle caps" until "the sound of his deep, labored breathing puts the cork on another confetti-filled evening." About her schoolboy son who flunked lunch. About her washing machine, which eats one sock in every pair; her kids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Erma in Bomburbia: Erma Bombeck | 7/2/1984 | See Source »

...blue-haired woman with a new skillet came in, insulted the whittlers, told them to sweep up their mess, took a seat and looked for all the world like she was waiting on the end of time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Arkansas: Whittling Away | 6/11/1984 | See Source »

...with a vengeance second only to those he reserved for "the establishment" stretching along the Potomac River. In 1953, McCarthy would bring his hearing committee proceedings to Boston to challenge Harvard professors, and later in the year he accused then-President Nathan M. Pusey '28 of producing a "Red-Mess" in Cambridge...

Author: By Paul DUKE Jr., | Title: Speaking freely in academe? | 6/7/1984 | See Source »

...COUBERTIN'S vision saw the Games bestowing the glow of friendly competition among athletes upon a different country every four years. And, after a few decades, viewers around the globe will no doubt become more familiar with the intricacies of Swiss banking than is necessary. But given the current mess and assuming a desire to save the Games, setting up shop near the Alps may prove to be a decent compromise solution. Besides, in the end, the location of the Olympics is irrelevant. If we'd just leave them alone, the athletes could create enough of a spectacle to make...

Author: By Antony J. Blinken, | Title: Move Them to Switzerland | 5/18/1984 | See Source »

...grew so addicted to CompuSex that her husband walked out, complaining that she was neglecting him for her machine. She then hooked up with a series of online lovers who were either disappointing or disappointed when she met them in the flesh. Now, complaining that her life is a mess, she is organizing a support group for women having similar difficulties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: X-Rated | 5/14/1984 | See Source »

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