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...makes an appearance in Oates' 328 pages of female-empowerment myth is a slimy, sweating, smelly brute, a rapist, a feeler, a hitter, a fascist. Here is a casual sample, describing a couple of apparently harmless guys on the street: "The two of them beefy big-bodied men with smallish heads, fleshy faces and restless eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Men Are They Really That Bad? | 2/14/1994 | See Source »

Because public television is blandly virtuous and soaks up smallish sums of tax money, almost no one but right-wing ideologues has ventured full-bore critiques. A 25th-anniversary report, put out last week by a task force of the usual Establishment suspects (Vartan Gregorian, Joe Califano, Tim Wirth and so on), provoked intriguing newspaper headlines (OVERHAUL PROPOSED, teased the Washington Post), but its reformist manifesto -- the 351 local PBS stations should get less federal money, the central programming apparatus should get more -- turned out to be tepid and intramural, a birthday wish list posing as tough-minded scrutiny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Necessary Is PBS? | 7/26/1993 | See Source »

Straus, hidden in the Yard's leafysouthwest corner, is the second-youngest dorm inthe Yard. Straus' smallish but nice quad suitescontain private bathrooms...

Author: By David S. Kurnick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: John F. Kennedy Slept Here | 7/3/1992 | See Source »

Battery Park City. Pedestrian amenities were taken seriously in this New York City project. Housing and shops and offices and parks neatly dovetail. Various architects designed smallish high-rises under the supervision of planners Alexander Cooper and Stanton Eckstut. Right out of a dead zone -- landfill on the southwestern tip of Manhattan -- something quite like a piece of real city is emerging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Best of the Decade: Design | 1/1/1990 | See Source »

Juniors Melinda Nelson and Sandra Springer will add height and bulk up front just in case the Crimson's smallish lineup is physically outplayed by an opponent. Both can contribute offensively and on the boards if they can develop a more intimidating style of play...

Author: By Michael Stankiewicz, | Title: W. Cagers Hoping To Defend Ivy Title | 11/22/1988 | See Source »

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