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...marriage ritual: "We promise to love, cherish, and groove on each other and all living things. We promise to smash the alienated family unit . . . We promise these things until choice do us part." For the second week in April, there is a self-defense karate lesson: "To use this right-foot snap-kick . . ." Nature hints: "Some fish reverse more than just sex roles-they actually consume the other gender." Nonviolent put-off for a masher: "You can have my body when I'm through with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Feminist Mystique | 11/8/1971 | See Source »

...other hand, a driver trained to use his left foot on the brake is a positive menace in a stick-shift car, where his instinctive reflex will land his foot on the clutch-where it will do worse than no good, since it robs him of even the minor braking action of the engine. Inexperienced drivers taught left-foot braking also sometimes freeze in an emergency on both brake and accelerator (one of the incidental advantages of right-foot braking is that the driver necessarily has to take his right foot off the accelerator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Highway: The Brake Debate | 5/8/1964 | See Source »

...Voters. On the island of Sardinia, politicians, protesting "foul" electioneering in a vote on the island, accused their rivals of giving out right-foot shoes with a promise of matching left ones 'in case of victory at the polls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 8, 1957 | 7/8/1957 | See Source »

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