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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fabled Golden Aphrodite! Also known as Kallipygos (Beautiful Buttocks). Borne full-blown from the sea (aphros means foam; -dite rhymes with nightie). Worshiped for centuries by amorous couples coupling clamorously. She was Homer's Goddess of Pure and Heavenly Love, but we forget that Homer was blind. So, alas, are we. Turns out that Aphrodite (Venus to you Romans) was not Ms. Clean at all but the Goddess of Naughty Sex. It is she we can thank for most + of mankind's sexual problems, and chief among these is our obsession with her elusive elixir, the aphrodisiac...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Aphrodite Was No Lady | 4/24/1989 | See Source »

...stampede to roll over. Everybody and his brother is distributing Product, and it's getting to be a dog-eat-dog world." His face assumes a mournful set: "I've been ripped off by my friends big time; they get down into the bag, on the pure stuff, and get paranoid, and right away they want to get you first." Too much crank can easily produce self- destructive paranoia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Southern California Tales of the Crank | 4/24/1989 | See Source »

...country's bloody past should not stop with Stalin but should go on to -- whisper it -- Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, Lenin himself, and to some of his principles, such as the centralization of all power in the Communist Party. Gorbachev often represents his policies as a return to the pure tenets of Lenin that Stalin perverted. But a few voices are suggesting, at least by implication, that the history debate is ultimately about the legitimacy of the Soviet state, a state with no validation other than the sacred rightness of the Communist Party and its doctrine of historical inevitability. "We have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Union: Haunted By History's Horrors | 4/10/1989 | See Source »

...Here were all these right-wing people adopting me, which made me even more unhappy, because I'm not a right-winger," he says. "I was the University president for 18 years. All but two of those years were just pure joy and happiness. I think I was the luckiest man that ever lived. I had a wonderful situation, friendly and supportive people--why should I feel sorry? But here were these people all feeling sorry...

Author: By Adam K. Goodheart, | Title: 'And Don't Think Young People Can't Be Evil' | 4/7/1989 | See Source »

...just hopped over the boards, along witheveryone else. It was a great feeling," seniorAllen Bourbeau said. "It was madness. That's theonly way to describe it. Pure madness...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Showtime in St.Paul: Harvard Wins it All | 4/3/1989 | See Source »

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