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...they favor the dress code (no blue jeans or tennis shoes except for gym; socks a must at all times) because it encourages "self-respect and a conscious effort on the part of the children." Students are also forbidden to eat, sing or "play" on the school bus. Spray paint cans and Magic Markers are not allowed in the building: the school's yellow walls are clean, its corridors and classrooms quiet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Trying the Old-Fashioned Way | 3/9/1981 | See Source »

...stiffen and is replaced more often than not by a mild form of self-parody. The old cliché was the bronze general on horseback, humiliated by birds. The new one is the abstract ashtray by some Top Name in the windy downtown plaza, victimized by creeps with spray cans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sculpture's Queen Bee | 1/12/1981 | See Source »

What really riles Hanson is the Government regulations that hamper his ranching. "Big Brother has got his arm solidly around you," he says. The Environmental Protection Agency will not let him use weed spray on his feed crops com animal poisons against the coyotes that prey on his calves. He complains that the Bureau of Land Management will not plow back more of the ranchers' grazing fees into improving the range, and that he must seek permission from the Army Corps of Engineers to build a culvert along a stream on his own property. "It's rules...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch... | 12/15/1980 | See Source »

Wearing suits that looked like they had been spray-painted on, the B.U. swimmers powered their way to 12 first-place finishes as compared to a scanty three firsts produced by the Crimson...

Author: By Caroline R. Adams, | Title: B.U. Drowns Aquawomen In Opener | 11/26/1980 | See Source »

HELP FIGHT CRIME: BUY GUNS, urge bumper stickers on cars along Miami's Flagler Street. To attract new depositors, the city's Lincoln Savings and Loan Association offers not toasters or blenders, but pocket cans of spray repellent. Newly acquired Doberman guard dogs growl inside increasing numbers of Bade County homes; sales of sophisticated burglar alarm systems and rudimentary iron bars for doors are booming. Says a Miami policeman: "Sometimes I think I'm in Dodge City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Absolute War in Our Streets | 11/24/1980 | See Source »

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