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Aside from the compelling simian endorsement, the council made a few other week attempts at propaganda. Most notable was the strategically timed doordrop of the sporadic council Courier. Published with our term bill money, the council's publicity rag abandoned all pretense of neutrality, urging a "Yes" vote from all comers. If the council leadership has the cheek to use our term-bill money to persuade us to deliver more lucre into their coffers, then we a Dartboard have something to say to them: Congratulations! You have a promising future in politics...

Author: By Benjamin J. Heller, | Title: DARTBOARD | 4/23/1994 | See Source »

...down and tried and write. It was not pretty, and now that the whole thing is over and done with, I'm awful close to throwing in the towel once and for all and forgetting that I ever heard of any two-bit rag called The Crimson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: It was a dark and stormy night... | 4/7/1994 | See Source »

Conservatives are noticed, and noticeable, because they're about the only ones making noise. When The Rag dropped off the earth, we lost the one consistently provocative voice on the campus left. Titillating in more than just the literal sense, The Rag challenged what people considered decorous, sensitive, tasteful. I miss The Rag, in the same way I'd miss Professor Mansfield if he went off to Chicago or New Haven or Hanover...

Author: By Joanna M. Weiss, | Title: Words Will Never Hurt You | 1/26/1994 | See Source »

...show begins with James Abbott McNeil Whistler's painting, Nocturne in Black and Gold: Rag Shop, Chelsea (c. 1848) He explores the effects of shadow and light, outlining a little girl's illuminated white dress in a dimly lit storefront which encloses her in a veil of darkness. The only representational painting in the exhibit, it anchors the efforts of the later painters in their exploration of tonality in the continuum of degrees of abstraction...

Author: By Mark Roybal, | Title: Significant `Shades' | 1/21/1994 | See Source »

...company survived, thanks to a Vermonthippie's arrival on the scene. He offered to buyall the flowered shirts from the '60s they had.His request made co-owner Bruce Cohen see a futurefor the struggling rag warehouse. "This stuff isactually worth something," he remembers thinking,and the company shifted to the recycled clothingbusiness: Dollar-A-Pound opened in 1980, and whenthe printing company upstairs moved out six yearslater, The Garment District was established...

Author: By Ethan A. Vogt, | Title: Déjà Vogue | 11/18/1993 | See Source »

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