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...joke I had missed the last time, and "The Simpsons" earns a fresh laugh. Not until I had taken a few months of physics did I get Homer's joke: "Lisa built me this perpetual motion machine--it just keeps getting faster and faster...LISA! In this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics...

Author: By Judd B. Kessler, | Title: EDITORIAL NOTEBOOK: Everybody Can Eat My Shorts Together | 12/6/2000 | See Source »

Then you need a good parliamentarian the other members agree to respect and obey. As the eldest, I automatically took the role of "list mom." That may have been a mistake, considering all the snickering that went on behind my e-back: "20 bucks says that by the time Eugenie reads this, she has already sent an e-mail asking us to stop spamming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Family Flame War | 12/4/2000 | See Source »

...School of Design student named Shepard Fairey, the campaign was originally a joke. Fairey plastered Providence with a sticker bearing a stylized Andre as a prank, and it grew from there--gaining curiosity, notoriety, converts, and a self-consciously totalitarian aesthetic (including lone block-typed words like "buy" and "obey...

Author: By Maryanthe E. Malliaris, | Title: Boxing Andre | 11/20/2000 | See Source »

Against this bleak picture, Andre's face looms with its stylized series of commands: Buy. Obey. The verbs' object is, of course, left blank. In the end, it seems, what we have bought into is not the product or the image at all but the movement--a movement which, ironically, consists exactly of those who have bought into the image. Postmodern cynics might even say we have bought into buying itself. Caveat emptor...

Author: By Maryanthe E. Malliaris, | Title: Boxing Andre | 11/20/2000 | See Source »

...believe in this area as others that students should take responsibility, and be held responsible, for their own actions," Lewis wrote in an e-mail message. "Moreover, this is more than a moral stance about our expectations that students obey the law; violating this one has very real potential consequences for students...

Author: By Marla B. Kaplan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: After Napster Decision, Legal Worries Remain | 9/29/2000 | See Source »

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