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...Some of them were paying people fifty cents to rub lotion on their backs," said Widener steps observer Christopher R. Hall '99 yesterday. "My price is higher than that...

Author: By Chana R. Schoenberger, | Title: Final Clubs Launch Initiations | 11/29/1995 | See Source »

Years of selective breeding have produced turkeys that are nothing but cooking pouches with legs. You rub the bird's inside with lemon, stuff it with bread dressing seasoned with sage and tarragon and jazzed up with chunks of sausage and nuts and wild rice, shove it in a hot oven; meanwhile, you whomp up yams and spuds and bake your pies. The dirty little secret of the dinner is melted animal fats: in all the recipes, somewhere it says, "Melt a quarter-pound of butter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WITH ALL THE TRIMMINGS | 11/27/1995 | See Source »

...They all three give one another ironclad commitments to a full and permanent cease-fire, a very wide zone of separation between combatants and a build-down of forces, with every detail of every map and timetable firmly and finally agreed on--an agreement so airtight (here's the rub) that it is self-enforcing, without need for outside "implementers"; or 2) we declare the parties insufficiently committed to peace, walk away and wash our hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NOTHING SUCCEEDS LIKE FAILURE | 11/20/1995 | See Source »

...there was Senator Al D'Amato, who is hotly pursuing Whitewater. According to the New York Times, weekly poker games in D'Amato's office once provided regular occasions for lobbyists to rub elbows with the New Yorker, who now heads the Banking Committee and the steering committee for Bob Dole's presidential campaign. While nobody admitted losing on purpose--a ploy that would have let D'Amato pocket as much as $300 a hand--the Senator's poker buddies represented clients who just happened to have business before the banking panel. D'Amato's office said the games ended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A LITTLE DIP IN THE CESSPOOL | 11/6/1995 | See Source »

left lipstick imprints the shape of grateful rub bery...

Author: By Daley C. Haggar, | Title: Atwood's Poetry Focuses on a Home | 10/19/1995 | See Source »

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