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...seen as decent boy-os from Liverpool. They worked fantastically hard--a concert in Hull, then drive down to London for a recording session and back home the same day for a radio interview. They appeared on all the popular TV variety shows, allowing the hosts to make genial mock of Beatlemania. The album underlines the band's close ties to mainstream British show biz. It was this grounding that helped them endure and enjoy their success with such amazing poise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FREE AS A BEATLE | 12/4/1995 | See Source »

From the students' perspective, all that matters right now are the baffling electronic registers. The training center itself is a full-scale mock-up of a fast-food restaurant, complete with menu board, soft-drink dispenser and enthusiastic instructor Bernadean Rouse, who plays a hard-driving shift manager. As she attempts to straighten out Jupiter, she shouts a general alert to the class: "If you don't hit the keys really hard, the numbers don't come up." Students help one another find the maddeningly elusive cash-register keys--there are 119 of them--while reminding their fellows to "Smile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MCSENIORS | 12/4/1995 | See Source »

...skipped Foreign Cultures lecture on Tuesday morning, you might have reduced yourself to a mock drag queen as you strut yourself across Widener's hallowed steps. How hypocritical you'd have felt as a sexist male affecting a fine female style. Oh, to be scum in drag on a Tuesday morning...

Author: By Joshua A. Kaufman, | Title: O, TO BE SCUM! | 12/2/1995 | See Source »

...Saro-Wiwa was murdered by the Nigerian government after a mock trial in which he was sentenced to death by a specially constituted military tribunal in blatant disregard for all civil and judicial procedure. His death is but the latest outrage against the Ogoni people, who struggle against economic disenfranchisement by the military government and its greatest supporter, the multinational corporation Anglo-Dutch Shell...

Author: By Taziona Chaponda, | Title: Release Shell Oil's Bloody Hands | 12/1/1995 | See Source »

What is the penis which is spoken of besides a detached wooden pole created in the craft shop? Does it have any greater purpose than mock ejaculation? Where does this penis disappear to after it gets dressed up in the plastic sheath and before it disrobes? Do we hear of the partner who is the receptacle for the male tool and his or her feelings about the act? Do we inquire why people are having sex or search for an understanding of any reason behind...

Author: By Joshua A. Kaufman, | Title: Wooden Penises And You | 11/27/1995 | See Source »

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