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Obviously there are reasonable restrictions on an employee's freedom of speech. A switchboard operator should not break into Tourette's-like torrents of profanity; likewise, professors probably should be discouraged from screaming at students or presenting their loopier notions as historical fact. But it's hard to see how...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ZIPPED LIPS | 2/5/1996 | See Source »

This could be easily prevented simply by stocking up on umbrellas.

Author: By Susan A. Chen, | Title: B-School Dean Leaves His Mark | 3/11/1995 | See Source »

This Wednesday, Garber, who is professor of English, stood on the stage dressed almost completely in black, including her stocking and high heels. A teaching fellow wrote a list of terms on the blackboard behind her.

Author: By Douglas M. Pravda, | Title: A Tale of Two Shakespeares | 10/1/1994 | See Source »

In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking, as Cole Porter noted. But now, God knows, anything goes. And now what's going is a new wrinkle in hose credited by some fashion experts to Ralph Lauren. In magazine ads, Lauren's young line, called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FASHION: Getting a Leg Up | 9/26/1994 | See Source »

The new length, which accentuates not so much the stocking as the ample amount of thigh above it, did not spring spontaneously from Lauren's sketch pad. Its 19th century antecedent is the gartered stocking. In those times, for reasons that probably escape today's young generations, that fashion was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FASHION: Getting a Leg Up | 9/26/1994 | See Source »

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