Word: rubbings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Before the Barenaked Ladies hit the big time, Boston's favorite sons, the Mighty, Mighty Bosstones, were overplayed on KISS 107.9 and introduced the mainstream radio audience to ska. Rub elbows with these musical pioneers at Tower Records, as they accept a star on the landing (formerly known as the Walk of Fame). Probability of scoring an autograph? Pretty high, knock on wood. Tower Records, 360 Newbury St., 247-5900. FREE...
...pedophile's wife (Cynthia Stevenson); and best-selling poet Helen (Lara Flynn Boyle)--their beaux and parents (Louise Lasser, Ben Gazzara). The prime setting is New Jersey, which Helen describes as "a state of irony." The whole film could be said to live there--a place where vile acts rub up against a Mantovani rendition of You Light Up My Life...
...starting a substantive conversation...aye, there's the rub. A lot of people fear that some monster called "Political Correctness" is going to devour them if they slip up--if they, for instance, forget to use the adjective "[fill-in-the-blank]-ly-challenged." Only peppering one's speech with the words "pluralism," "diversity," and "sensitivity," it seems, will appease the beast...
...been a time when English common law was studied and revered, but at the end of the 20th, we're more familiar with TV's Judge Judy than with James Madison. "High crimes and misdemeanors" sounds like it could mean anything, from murder to jaywalking. And here's the rub--Mason's dirty little secret--it could mean anything. The Constitution gives the House of Representatives sole authority to decide what constitutes grounds for impeachment. That's why President Andrew Johnson was impeached in 1868, when a nasty political dispute got out of hand. (The Senate failed by a vote...
...your poll shows that less than 30% of women today consider themselves feminists. The term feminist, it appears, is almost regarded as an insult, reserved for women who want to conquer the world and all its men. But a woman's success is seldom a point she wants to "rub in" to members of the opposite sex. She may wish to be viewed as an individual, not as a representative of her gender. Sadly, our society is one that cannot differentiate between someone's proving a point as a woman and proving herself as a person. LAUREN RUTLEDGE...