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...their own $34.99 Vixen Pirate costumes from Party City. I guess reducing women to pneumatic parodies of actual people with Y chromosomes—Sexy policeman! Sexy fireman! Sexy lumberjack!—is bad and all...but for every embarrassing minus to ill-fitting corsets and such (quadra-boob, for example), there are quite a few pluses. Who will we right-thinking Second Wave holdouts have to feel superior to, if not a bunch of sluts in short skirts, right? How will we begin to attack the patriarchy (again, some more) if we can’t start with...

Author: By Alwa A. Cooper, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Love It + Hate It = Ambivalent: Skanky Halloween Costumes | 10/24/2007 | See Source »

...Ionic Breeze Quadra...

Author: By R. Fujii, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Infomercials, Inspirations of Insanity | 11/29/2001 | See Source »

...smoke cigars with my guy friends—when my girlfriend comes home, she has no idea how much fun we had.” Be like that guy with slicked-back hair who uses an Ionic Breeze Quadra. The Quadra filtering device has a patented “Zenion Effect” that positively charges incoming air, then directs it towards the negative charged grid, which catches particles and pushes out clean air. It’s quiet and cheap, and eliminates odors and chemical fumes in your home—and home air may be five times more...

Author: By R. Fujii, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Infomercials, Inspirations of Insanity | 11/29/2001 | See Source »

...fact, Apple seems incapable of forecasting sales for its products. Over the past two years the company has consistently underestimated demand for its hottest PowerBook and Quadra models. It has just as consistently overestimated demand for less popular machines. Between October and December, the value of Apple's inventories of unsold computers rose more than 50%, to nearly $1 billion; the company made more than $350 million worth of computers it could not sell. Already losing money, Apple is not in a good position to hold a sale. Meanwhile, the surplus drags further on the bottom line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: APPLE OF SUN'S EYE | 2/5/1996 | See Source »

Despite the flurry of Power Macintoshes hitting the market, most Harvard students looking to purchase a Mac will find Apple's 68040-based LC 575 and Quadra 605 to be better buys for word processing, HSDN connectivity and light multimedia applications...

Author: By Eugene Koh, | Title: Taking the Power Mac for a Spin | 4/12/1994 | See Source »

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