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...classic pose that every six-year-old hits during the stage where he's doing push-ups and fooling with dumbbells. And there's the "Most Muscular pose. Clasp your hands a little below your naval, force your chest and neck out, strain until every vein looks like a pencil and your face looks like it's not going to last very...much...longer, and that's the most muscular...

Author: By William E. Mckibban, | Title: Self-Improvement | 7/14/1981 | See Source »

...stores: velvet paintings, toilet seats, wall hangings, purses, change purses, ash trays, mugs (at least five varieties), salt and pepper shakers, toothpicks and holders, sun visors, jugs, shirts (uncountable selection), measuring cups, placemats, letter holders, desk organizers, soap dishes, "Pedro's paddles", baby pants, baby bibs, back scratcher, coasters, pencil sharpeners, x-rated viewing cameras, jumping beans, figurines of pedro and cacti, pencils key rings, combs, six-color magic markers, donkey toothbrush holders, puppets, letter openers, napkin rings, wind-up Pedros, frisbees, New Years noise makers, wallets, scarves, candles, fake rocks ("get your rocks off," $5.95), toy pinball machines, tambourines...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: 18 Hours South of the Border | 6/26/1981 | See Source »

Until now, the object of discussion has appeared immobile, his eyes half closed. Suddenly he springs into action, sharply rapping a pencil on the edge of a glass ashtray. The unexpected tinkling sound marks the beginning of what Stacie, a senior at North Caroline High, will later call the most exciting classroom experience of her life. For the next three days, Philosopher Mortimer Adler-compiler of the 54-volume set of the Great Books of the Western World, outliner of the 102 Great Ideas of All Time-is loose again, doing what he does best, teaching. In an experimental session...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Maryland: Adolescents, Aristotle and Adler | 6/22/1981 | See Source »

...consumer is not easy. But just how tough can it be? The Moscow weekly, Literary Gazette, dispatched Correspondent Vil Dorofeyev to Krasnodar, a typical provincial city 735 miles south of Moscow, to find out. Dorofeyev was instructed to take only the clothes on his back and a pad and pencil, and to buy everything else that he needed on the spot. The seemingly simple assignment turned into a soap opera, Soviet-style...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union: Soap Opera | 4/27/1981 | See Source »

...lose much stature in the process because everyone who cares knows they stopped producing their best stuff sometime during the reign of Richard Nixon. This is the Stones hanging on, older and less tough, but still worth listening to if you once did Charlie Watts on you plastic pencil case...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: It's Only Rock and Roll | 4/3/1981 | See Source »

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