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Then I encountered another textbook case of anality, still in my very own bathroom. I was told that it was ludicrous to alternate the strokes with which I brought the razor across my face while shaving. For me, shaving does not require a chart with which to map out the attack on my five-o'clock shadow. How I shave depends on which hand I'm holding my beer with at the time. It depends on whether I've had too many beers. It depends on lots of things...

Author: By John J. Murphy, | Title: A Freudian Interpretation of Harvard Life | 3/3/1988 | See Source »

During practice sparring, the trainers cover the birds' spurs with miniature boxing gloves, but at the cockpit a deadly, razor-sharp, two-inch blade is strapped onto each bird's left foot...

Author: By Eugene L. Jhong, | Title: Cock-Fighting in the Philippines | 2/22/1988 | See Source »

...Tony Coelho (D-Calif.) the chief vote counter for House Democrats. said the margin for the showdown vote remains razor-thin, with a group of 30 to 50 members considered crucial...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reagan to Push for More Contra Aid | 1/20/1988 | See Source »

...tweedy Prentiss does not make as splashy an entrance as Joyce's stately, plump Buck Mulligan in his yellow dressing gown, "bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed." Yet there is a strained relationship. Buck begins Joyce's stream of subversive epiphanies with a mockery of religious ritual, and Pat launches Thomas Flanagan's The Tenants of Time with a polite spoof on the rituals of orthodox history. Prentiss is a young Irish pedant, fresh out of New College, Oxford, and itching to write a book about a failed nationalist uprising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Connoisseurs Of Lost Causes THE TENANTS OF TIME | 1/11/1988 | See Source »

Like Carter, Hart and other once obscure presidential hopefuls, Babbitt is betting his candidacy on its first test: the Feb. 8 Iowa caucuses. Though he is still low in the polls, his organization is razor sharp in both Iowa and New Hampshire, where grass-roots efforts are particularly crucial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign Portrait, Bruce Babbitt: Standing Up For Substance | 1/4/1988 | See Source »

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