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Carter has said that there will be many women and blacks in his Administration, and it could be that he has in mind more than the traditional "minority" appointments in housing, welfare, etc. State could be a real stunner...
Insurance companies have complained that jury verdicts and damage settlements for injuries are getting out of hand. They may now be getting out of sight; each week seems to bring another stunner. Three recent cases indicate that the trend is still onward and upward; they also provide some new theories on who should be paid as well...
...British press, predictably, had a field day. SUNSHINE PRINCESS is A STUNNER, bleated the London Evening News. MY PRINCESS, bannered the Daily Express possessively. Television built up to the big event with all the suspense of a moon shot. From fond accounts of Anne's girlhood visit to a monkey farm in Malta to interviews with the sexton who would ring the church bell in Mark's home town of Great Somerford, no detail seemed too trivial to mention...
...according to Mexican Poet-Diplomat Octavio Paz. In Western pornography, "death spurs pleasures and rules over life. From Sade to the Story of O, eroticism is a funeral chant or a sinister pantomime." Reading about sadism can have a cumulative effect, according to Psychoanalyst Ernest van den Haag. Der Stunner, a Hitlerite journal that mixed anti-Semitism and sex, contributed to the general atmosphere that made it possible to slaughter Jews, Van den Haag believes. Similarly, he says, today's sadistic pornography contributes to a general atmosphere in which sadism becomes generally permissible...
Pennsylvania played its worst game of the season against Harvard last Saturday, missing every break and making many mistakes. It won't happen again. In a stunner, Mr. Z and his surprising crew, which played Harvard even in the second half, will top Dowling's Yalies...