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Pedestals always work in a pinch. Heels, as I point out in The Pornography of Meat, damage the spine. I’m interested in getting humans to stop viewing nonhuman animals as theirs to use, eat, experiment upon or wear. It’s curious how dependent humans are for their self-conceptualization on the existence of animals as the opposite, as lower, as the dominated ones, as the edible ones...

Author: By Elizabeth W. Green, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fifteen Questions For Carol J. Adams | 10/2/2003 | See Source »

...Rather, he was there to have a good time. He drank well and laughed often, smoked constantly and chatted up everyone who came to wish him well. And he was quite friendly with me, which may have had more to do with my girlfriend Julia, whom he tried to pinch, kiss or squeeze whenever she came near. And yet even in lechery he was completely charming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Singing Compay's Praises | 7/18/2003 | See Source »

...great comedy writers will fall back on conventional things in a pinch,” says Vitti. “Once you’ve written sitcoms for a number of years, you can watch most TV shows and you could almost number the jokes: that’s 18a; that?...

Author: By Simon W. Vozick-levinson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: For Simpsons Writer Meyer, Comedy is No Laughing Matter | 6/4/2003 | See Source »

...long enough to squeeze the Ivy League Championship game in—wound up being as unambiguous as Thomas Pauly versus Frank Herrmann with two on and two out in the ninth. For the seldom-used Herrmann, a freshman and Harvard Coach Joe Walsh’s last pinch-hitting option on a thinning bench, and Pauly, arguably the conference’s most dominant pitcher, the moment was a collision of implausibility and perfect clarity...

Author: By Martin S. Bell, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Princeton Paul-ishes Baseball Off In Three | 5/12/2003 | See Source »

...used his favorite pinch hitter, sophomore Rob Wheeler, in the seventh. Senior Nick Seminara had pinch run for Wheeler. Sophomore A.J. Solimine was already pinch running for Dukovich. And he sure couldn’t let captain and closer Barry Wahlberg—who was slated to hit—grab...

Author: By Lande A. Spottswood, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: The Season, In A Single Play | 5/12/2003 | See Source »

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