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Although sexual promiscuity is its membership fee, the groupie subsociety has its own curious moral code. It has even developed class strata of sorts. At the bottom are such aberrant types as "the Plaster Casters," a pair of young Chicago fetishists who, as their name implies, have a peculiar hobby. They make plaster casts of rock stars' anatomies-certain parts of their anatomies, that is. Only slightly higher on the social scale are the "kiss and tell" groupies, who collect and trade the names of their conquests-often falsely...
...discriminatory employment practices of white businesses and limited opportunity in black enterprises resulted in a peculiar pattern of occupational preferences stressing anything but business -- medicine, law, teaching, and the ministry. Williams emphasized the desparate need in the ghetto for "the success image provided for the kids in school" by a black-owned business. This success offers blacks incentive to enter a field they have long forgotten...
...studios. It was Spyros the younger who decided that the family's business future is on the high seas rather than on the Hollywood film lots. He is a model of the well-modulated executive. His father, by contrast, still broadcasts endless orders and advice in his own peculiar Greco-American, calling businessmen and most other people "big sots"-his way of saying big shots. He remains chairman of 20th Century-Fox, but the post is largely honorific. Having sold or given away much of the $6,000,000 interest that the Skourases had in Fox, he laments that...
...second half was a succession of scoring skeins, first by Columbia (read "Jim McMillian" or "Heywood Dotson") and then by Harvard. Dover dropped in several lunging layups which caught the backboard at a peculiar angle but then spun into the basket...
Keeney said the course would examine what black humor means in terms of current values and why it is so appreciated now. It will explore black humor's relation to comedy and tragedy and will try to determine what black humor's peculiar qualities...