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...terrible, very embarrassed, very bad,...less than worthy," nor are they plagued by fears that 'if [they] died accidentally [they] wouldn't be able to remove the material." In fact, most of them are involved in stable, monogamous relationships. They do not engage in bondage, bestiality, or any other nonstandard sexual practice. None of them has ever employed a prostitute, though some of them have rented adult movies and visited the Combat Zone--activities which the article places on the same level as prostitution...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Archaic Concept of Porn Flawed | 2/10/1995 | See Source »

...sales of competing encryption systems, the government is trying to make it difficult for any alternative schemes to become widespread. If Clipper manages to establish itself as a market standard -- if, for example, it is built into almost every telephone, modem and fax machine sold -- people who buy a nonstandard system might find themselves with an untappable phone but no one to call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Should Keep the Keys? | 3/14/1994 | See Source »

...attributed his victory to a difference in strategy. "[Seltzer] is a much more aggressive player," he said. "I tried to keep it conservative which ismore my style. I played a nonstandard opening,which he obviously didn't seem to be used...

Author: By Ethan M. Tucker, | Title: Harvard Chess Club Trounces Yale | 11/23/1993 | See Source »

...matters of grammar, everyone can now do their own thing -- or so RHD-II argues in a note that endorses using their with a singular antecedent like everyone, something that was "nonstandard" in RHD-I. Hopefully seems a hopeless cause, a butterfly of an adverb that has turned into the caterpillar it-is-to-be-hoped, which RHD-II proclaims "fully standard." And because many people wrongly consider the past tense of sneak to be snuck (instead of sneaked), the word has been promoted from "chiefly dialect" in RHD-I to full respectability here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Surveying The State of the Lingo THE RANDOM HOUSE DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE | 11/2/1987 | See Source »

...full of rich and varied strong sonorities, gets a passionate reading from Phillips, who has a flourishing chamber-music career, and Grossman, a Chicago Symphony cellist. Even better is the brooding Sonata (1915), which employs just about every string-writing trick there is, including left-hand pizzicato and scordatura (nonstandard tuning). As close to technical impossibility as a piece can be and still remain playable, the Sonata is a 20th century masterpiece that deserves to be known by all music lovers, not just cellists. Grossman's performance, while not as pyrotechnical as, say, Janos Starker's, captures all the work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Of Punks, Trouts and Finns | 2/11/1985 | See Source »

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