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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That little piece of research spelled doom for the green stuff on the walls of Lowell and Winthrop Houses, both of which, during renovations, saw their Ivy torn down this summer and supplanted with rather less attractive metal scaffolding...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Agenda for the Year | 9/17/1982 | See Source »

That little piece of research spelled doom for the green stuff on the walls of Lowell and Winthrop Houses, both of which, during renovations, saw their ivy torn down this summer and supplanted with rather less attractive metal scaffolding...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Agenda for the Year | 9/16/1982 | See Source »

That little piece of research spelled doom for the green stuff on the walls of Lowell and Winthrop Houses, both of which, during renovations, saw their ivy torn down this summer and supplanted with rather less attractive metal scaffolding...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Agenda for the Year | 9/13/1982 | See Source »

...Solidarity's underground leaders as a nationwide statement of support for the suspended union. Anxious to avoid a showdown, the government had mounted an intensive publicity campaign aimed at keeping people off the streets. Officials announced the arrest of underground activists who had allegedly stockpiled crowbars and metal cable to use as weapons. Speaking at the graduation exercises of an officers' training school in Poznan, Jaruzelski warned that "excesses and irresponsible demonstrations" would "not be tolerated." Just before the scheduled demonstrations, the management of several major Warsaw factories played tapes of one of Lech Walesa's moderate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poland: Defiance in the Streets | 9/13/1982 | See Source »

...they simply mutilated their bodies. For a thousand years Chinese women bound their feet so tightly that a natural "high heel" was formed, and toes were twisted irreversibly under the arch; African women used discs to form platypus lips; in Burma, tribeswomen encircled their necks with so many heavy metal rings that the vertebrae would separate. In the early 19th century, English fashion in female bodies was ethereal, emaciated; a tubercular fragility was considered attractive. Women subsisted on a diet of vinegar and belladonna to achieve the Pre-Raphaelite "fatal slimness." The crowning, confining glory of Victoriana was the whalebone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Ideal Of Beauty | 8/30/1982 | See Source »

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