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Older women A sub-division of the trend-setters, they smoke British cigarettes and seduce proctors. They are not older in years, merely more weary of the world and more prone to peasant skirts, husky laughs, and hoop earings. The never join the trend setters for mid-Yard tanning sessions...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Looking Out For Harold And His Friends | 8/10/1982 | See Source »

Proof of any of the allegations so far has been singularly elusive. Two former congressional pages first aired the sex charges on national TV three weeks ago. One, Leroy Williams, 18, of Little Rock, Ark., claimed to have had sex with three Congressmen and to have secured the services of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fighting Its Image Problem | 7/26/1982 | See Source »

As the art evolved, with men known as onna-gata performing the female roles, Kabuki became more explicitly theatrical, drawing on the earlier dramatic conventions of serious Noh theater, comic Kyogen plays, and stories from the Bunraku puppet theater. Parts were passed down the generations as leading theatrical families established...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Japan's Wondrous Road Show | 7/26/1982 | See Source »

The trouble with loaded words is that they tend to short-circuit thought. While they may describe something, they simultaneously try to seduce the mind into accepting a prefabricated opinion about the something described. The effect of one laden term was incidentally measured in a recent survey of public attitudes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Watching Out for Loaded Words | 5/24/1982 | See Source »

Clara Y. Bingham '85, who is joining Tiedemann's group, learned about Southwestern through Tiedemann, who is an old friend. She describes Southwestern as "a word-of-mouth network within the country," adding that recruiters "seduce you into selling." After attending the sales school in late May. Bingham says her...

Author: By Rebecca J. Joseph, | Title: The Southwestern Equation | 5/6/1982 | See Source »

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