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...depends, of course: Bad taste in what? There were Nazis who came home from work at Auschwitz and listened to Mozart. An elegant emperor may also be a sadist or an idiot or a weakling. If good taste were the qualification for leadership, the greatest Presidents might be interior decorators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Stylishness of Her Privacy | 5/30/1994 | See Source »

That's the secret, really. Don't write out "TIME!!!" in inch-high scrawl--it only brings out the sadist in us. Don't (Cliffies) write offers to come over and read aloud to us your illegible remarks--we can (officially) read anything, and we may be married. Write on both sides of the page--single bluebook finals look like less work to grade and win points. This chic, shaded calligraphic script so many are affecting lately is handsome, and is probably worth a good five extra points is you can hack...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Grader's Reply | 1/19/1994 | See Source »

That's the secret, really. Don't write out "TIME!!!" in inch-high scrawl--it only brings out the sadist in us. Write on both sides of the page--single bluebook finals look like less work to grade, and win points. THis chic, shaded calligraphic script so many are affecting lately is handsome, and is probably worth a good extra five points if you can hack it. But above all, keep us entertained. Keep us awake. Be bold, be personal, be witty, be chock full of facts. I'm sure you can do it all without studying...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: One Grader's 1962 Reply | 8/17/1993 | See Source »

These past few weeks, only a sadist could take pleasure in watching Stephanopoulos sputter as he tried to explain to skeptical -- and even scornful -- reporters the abject reinstatement of five employees from the White House travel office who had been summarily fired a week earlier. And only Saturday Night Live's writers could enjoy the spectacle of Myers trying to defend the White House's farcical attempt to turn a female TV reporter into a presidential makeup artist during a Clinton visit to New Hampshire. Why had a White House staff member asked the local journalist, who was about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newswatch: Clinton vs. the Press | 6/7/1993 | See Source »

That's the secret, really. Don't write out "TIME!!!" in inch-high scrawl--it only brings out the sadist in us. Don't (Cliffies) write offers to come over and read aloud to us your illegible remarks--we can (officially) read anything, and we may be married. Write on both sides of the page--single bluebook finals look like less work to grade, and win points. This chic, shaded calligraphic script so many are affecting lately is handsome, and is probably worth a good extra five points if you can hack...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Grader's Reply | 1/20/1993 | See Source »

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