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...Your story "First No to Sex Bias" [Dec. 6] says somewhat disapprovingly that the courts have upheld laws that forbid women to work as bartenders. If a man bartender becomes rude or obnoxious, one can always slug him over the head with a beer bottle, but what do you do to a woman bartender under similar circumstances? Women tending bar are an insult to motherhood. They should be home looking after their children...
...members of the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC) were arrested yesterday on charges of "rude and disorderly conduct" while they demonstrated in front of two Cambridge liquor stores...
With everyone finally in tune. Zappa opened the set by harranguing the audience with such statements as, "Some people say we're perverted, and they're right. And just to show you how perverted we really are, even though you're rude and obnoxious, we still love you!" The audience howled for more. But it wasn't more of Zappa the pervert they got, it was Zappa the musical genius...
Football Is Football. For Prothro and Devine, two of the most celebrated coaches ever to jump from college football into the pros, the opening games were a rude initiation into the big leagues. For the other pro teams, they were merely proof that the newcomers were, as Dallas Cowboy Coach Tom Landry had predicted, "going to find it's a different game." Devine, who says that he was hit but unhurt "30 to 50 times" while patrolling the sidelines at the University of Missouri, might well agree. Nonetheless he insists that "football is football, whatever the level." Like former...
...fishwife Solon, Bella Abzug, is not a figure of fun but a frightening symbol of what political standards in this country have declined to. This rude, raucous and profane woman debases the democratic process and brings home to us the truth that what is popular is not necessarily palatable...