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...several weeks of on-air fumbling before it crystallized. The new series also will need time to find its way, and it cannot go too far wrong with the writing and performing talent it already has. Comedy, Steve Martin once said, is not pretty. The New Show needs to muss itself up a bit. If it does, then there is reason to hope that in the weeks ahead it will become The New and Improved Show. - By Richard Stengel

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mining Familiar Territory | 1/16/1984 | See Source »

...same. "Both states bullshit about the justice of their systems, but where's my money?" And while the dissidents claim there is freedom in the West, Eddie knows otherwise: "They've got no fucking freedom here, just try and say anything bold at work. No fuss, on muss, but you're out on your ear." Eddie is a captive of society; the bars on his windows are Work and Money, and his social vision never transcends selfishness...

Author: By Mark E. Feinberg, | Title: From Russia, With Angst | 9/27/1983 | See Source »

...organizer, I believe that it is necessary for people to be aware of the correct amount approximated for dues, in order to avoid any further misunderstandings. Julianne L. Muss...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Wrong Impression | 5/18/1983 | See Source »

...Synge and Henry James, to name two. Mark Twain, who typed the manuscript of either Tom Sawyer or Life on the Mississippi (the matter is murky), became the first author to hand in a typewritten book to his publisher. Of his Remington, Twain wrote: "It don't muss things or scatter ink blots around." Twain also began the practice of double-spacing manuscripts, thus providing room for editors ever since to fill the margins with the words "awkward" and "Don't get this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Last Page in the Typewriter | 5/16/1983 | See Source »

...Julie L. Muss '85, another organizer, says the new organization would be different from these two groups because it would have no "political or feminist overtones...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Students Organize A 'Non-Exclusive' Social Club | 5/9/1983 | See Source »

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