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...conventional soft-porn girlie calendars are available only in select stores and newsstands, but male beefcake abounds this year. In A Woman Looks at Men's Buns, photographer Christie Jenkins gives a cheeky tour of some rather hairy backsides. She provides a most unusual perspective on Terrance eating ice cream, T. J. and Sal sunning, and J.D. straddling his motorcycle...

Author: By Thomas H. Howlett, | Title: Bo, Buns and the Vineyard: Hundreds of Ways to Keep Time | 12/9/1981 | See Source »

...only proposal that drew support for legislative action was a recommendation that states select convention delegates by "a process which restricts participation to members of that political party...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Party Leaders End Conference With Joint Drafts for Reforms | 12/7/1981 | See Source »

...Archie Bunker may seem like a conformist, but he is, a heart, an individualist who rebels against uniformity not of his own making. He considers it his right to paint his house coral or plaid if he wants to, much as he would tattoo his biceps or select an inscription for his T shirt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Curlers at the Block Party | 12/7/1981 | See Source »

Each year, the Society's senior fellows, a group of local professors (nine--including Hubel--are from Harvard, one is from MIT, and one--Helen Vendler--is a visiting professor at Harvard from Boston University), gather to select a batch of eight junior fellows for the society. These eight, according to society literature, must be "persons of exceptional ability, originality, and resourcefulness" in any academic field. Most have completed the course work for their Ph.D.'s, if they have not actually taken the degree...

Author: By Michael W. Miller, | Title: An Academic Free Lunch | 12/3/1981 | See Source »

Concentrations differ greatly in their leniency towards granting approval for programs of study abroad. Craig Partridge '83, a student member of CUE, said last night, adding that creating a committee to accredit foreign academic programs would allow students to select reasonable programs "without concentrations breathing down their necks...

Author: By Paul A. Engelmayer, | Title: CUE Inaugurates Review Of Rules on Study Abroad | 12/3/1981 | See Source »

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