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WORD HAS IT that the undergraduate organization of budding politicos, the Institute of Politics, is considering inviting the Wizard of La, David Duke, to stink up the K-School Forum...

Author: By Gary J. Bass, | Title: Duke: Why Bother? | 12/19/1991 | See Source »

...sink that by his bed gives off a stink then smells her perfume in his eyes...

Author: By J.d. Connor, | Title: From Poetic Lyrics to Lyric Poetry | 11/22/1991 | See Source »

...movies, so it was in other areas of pop culture such as music, TV and sports. A few blacks were revered in a few fields; many others were relegated to the back of the bus, with little to do but toss epithets and stink bombs at the whites up front. The color-blind society that King dreamed of is still only a dream. Blacks can't shed their skin, and whites can't shed their guilt and fear: guilt over the literal and social enslavement of black Americans, and fear at the violent revenge taken by the black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Boyz Of New Black City | 6/17/1991 | See Source »

...outcome was merely a big stink: losses that approached $25 million by the end of 1990. Now Bic will officially pull the plug on its perfume line at / the stockholders' meeting later this month. Bad reviews were only part of the problem. Bic may have ultimately been undone by the simple but deadly logic of snob appeal -- namely, it is not luxury that makes things expensive, but expense that makes things luxurious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRODUCT FAILURES Scents and Sensibility | 5/20/1991 | See Source »

...chairman of Tulane University's political science department is no academic bomb thrower. But when Paul Lewis looked closely at the "initiatives for the race and gender enrichment" of the university proposed by a faculty committee -- well, he says, "I raised a stink." The plan implied a quota system for hiring more black and female teachers and the appointment within all departments of "race and gender liaison persons," whom Lewis likens to political commissars. Thanks largely to the challenge he organized, Lewis is a controversial figure at Tulane, but the initiatives are now being revised. "I never even heard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Academics In Opposition | 4/1/1991 | See Source »

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