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...virtually impossible for a college student to go through school without having partaken of or witnessed without reporting to the police some infraction of our marijuana statutes, and yet we hardly consider ourselves criminals. Gone are the days of paranoia, complete with burning incense to hide the smell of burning grass from the proctors and tutors. They're too busy smoking to turn...

Author: By Martin B. Schwimmer, | Title: Too High for Politics | 2/24/1981 | See Source »

...nuclear forces. As a result, the West Europeans have imposed a bit of linkage of their own. They have said they will cooperate with the U.S. in upgrading NATO's nuclear defenses only if the U.S. simultaneously pursues arms control agreements. Hard-liners in the Reagan Administration may smell a scent of blackmail there, yet the hard fact remains that the U.S. could restore a much needed degree of transatlantic calm if its fair-weather allies were not quite so nervously eyeing the thunderheads over Soviet-American relations. With calm restored, the U.S. might then be able to reassert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Rebuild the Image | 2/23/1981 | See Source »

...highlights of any Harvard Krokodiloe concert comes with the group's rendition of Cole Porter's "Let's Do It." The Kroks, the 12-man cappella undergraduate singing group, always revises the lyrics of this randy war-horse to give it that unmistakable aroma of burning rubber--the smell of tires and gonads hot for another trip to Wellesley...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: 'Muffy, A Song For Us' | 2/14/1981 | See Source »

...surprised skunk came tumbling onto the floor of the apartment, spraying the entire room in fright. The apartment and all the woman's possessions were ruined beyond repair, and the furry little varmint got away unscathed; but the luckless landlord was fined the maximum of $500 and the smell of justice lingered on long after...

Author: By Sara J. Nicholas, | Title: In the Public Eye | 2/11/1981 | See Source »

...stand smells horrible. There is this terrific bad smell and it can only come from the hot dogs and still I put one in my mouth. Everyone I see is ugly. They are all ugly, ugly. Boxing is like a dirty rain filtering through the air of the city, bringing all the worms to the surface. I have never seen so many pork-pie hats in my life. I pay a dollar sixty for a cup of beer and head back to my seat. I am nauseous. I am hoping I can hide...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: La Nause'e In The Ring | 1/19/1981 | See Source »

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