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...bunch of sixth-graders. An ad for Bobby Gray Volkswagen-Mazda in Jackson, Miss., features nine car salesmen in matching sweatshirts, khaki pants and tennis shoes who stage an arrhythmic song-and-dance routine in the middle of an empty football stadium. While three of the performers pound out a funky beat on keyboard, drums and guitar, the other six do an out-of-step side-to-side shuffle. In between refrains, the various salesmen sing rap-style verses in which they boast about their prowess on the showroom floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: And Now, a Gag From Our Sponsor | 5/19/1986 | See Source »

...discovered just how boring it was to write paper after paper about the use of the word "the" in "Song of Myself" and such rot and have often cursed the fateful decision which led me into courses where I had to read Pilgrim'f Progreff or anything by Ezra Pound...

Author: By Benjamin N. Smith, | Title: A Fatal Mistake | 5/7/1986 | See Source »

...plan, designed to avoid wild fluctuations on currency markets, would affect the U.S. dollar, the yen, the West German mark, French franc and the British pound...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Western Heads Wrap up `Smooth' Summit | 5/7/1986 | See Source »

...West, these huge pinwheels of thick dough enfold gluey cinnamon, butter (or one of the more or less convincing substitutes) and enough sugar to create a sticky, candied mass. Measuring from two to five inches in both height and diameter and weighing in at about half a pound each, the buns suggest great spiraled coliseums of honeyed cardboard. Given the size and messiness of these concoctions, it is hard to imagine that an individual could consume a whole one at a sitting. Nonetheless, people do just that, either at the tiny counter of the shop in the mall or back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: The Sweet Smell of Success | 4/21/1986 | See Source »

...Anorexics' cognitive functioning is affected. They can no longer tell what they really look like. There are 80 pound women in the hospital who are angry when they are force-fed; they think people are forcing them to get fat," says Honnet...

Author: By Laura S. Kohl, | Title: Coping With Eating Problems at Harvard | 4/16/1986 | See Source »

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