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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Then there was Lincoln. He got a lot of good press after being shot, but I'm too squeamish for that type of thing and theater in Russia is nothing to speak of. Teddy Roosevelt? He lifted weights. Too tiring. Franky Roosevelt? He was big with economic reform. No zing in that...

Author: By Rutger Fury, | Title: SOUND OF FURY: | 2/14/1987 | See Source »

...material, and a purist friend tells me that the house pianist was way off throughout. So, purists take note. For the rest of us it's a cast of dreamboats and high-power honeys singin' the kind of songs that heaven sings when its feelin' blue. So to speak...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On Theater: | 2/13/1987 | See Source »

Though I can't speak for other campus activists, I can only give Joseph my heartfelt apology that racism, murder, the separation of families and all the bitter harvest of apartheid, bore him, or even put him to sleep. It's ironic that Joseph should charge that "complaints rarely move beyond the whining stage," when he has given us a piece of infantile whining rarely matched even in the Crimson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Goaded Activist | 2/12/1987 | See Source »

THERE WAS a time when men and women consulted Shakespeare and Dante for guidance in their relations with one another; now they consult Dr. Ruth and Masters and Johnson. That says a lot. One need only be a Dr. Ruth to speak intelligently about sex, but one would need to be a Shakespeare to speak intelligently about love...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AGAINST THE TIDE: | 2/11/1987 | See Source »

...there can be no Bacchic revelry for modern man: our sex must be safe. It is impossible to speak of safe love. Falling in love, like falling off a cliff, involves risks. Modern man dislikes risks. Love can't be made safe, but sex can. Modern technology helps out. It has succeeded in making sex safe and sterile. Just like modern man himself...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AGAINST THE TIDE: | 2/11/1987 | See Source »

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