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...play nearly crosses the line. Nonfeminist women are depicted as vacuous trifles and virtually every man is an evil, swaggering oppressor--"Let's go back to my place and struggle over sexism" leers one of the predatory "male feminists," who sees the movement as a potentially fruitful pick-up ground. The issue of abortion is resolved neatly with one utterance from a player...

Author: By Charles E. Cohen, | Title: Feminist Follies | 3/12/1987 | See Source »

Russian Research Center fellow Philip Clendenning saw as "preposterous," the notion that America, with its widespread "pick-up truck mentality" and "Moral Majority types," could possibly succumb to the bloodless victory depicted...

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, | Title: Back in the U.S.S.A. | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

...Knows whom or what you might meet? If someone else is there too, he/she obviously doesn't have a date ether, so you can afford to be direct. men, it might be a beneficial idea to bring along a spare flower or two, especially it you tend to use pick-up lines as unobvious as, "Hey, want to bench press my body...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Frustration, It's Making Me Wait | 2/13/1987 | See Source »

...basketball players--Robert Taylor Sr. played at Clarkson Univeristy and Robert Jr. played for Ottawa University. Randy Taylor occasionally puts on a pair of sneakers and hits the court himself--with mixed results. Perhaps the spector of his older (and bigger) brother lurks in the background, even in the pick-up games Taylor plays...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Keeping Things Loose and Steady at Bright | 1/28/1987 | See Source »

...years we've brought people here that have no other way of getting to Boston," says Director of the Dance Center Iris M. Fanger. This summer David Gordon and the Pick-Up Company will perform in late July and Remy Charlip will dance a New England Premier Concert the following weekend...

Author: By Shari Rudavsky, | Title: Dancin' Six Weeks Away | 7/8/1986 | See Source »

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