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...Fleshtones also pull some catchy melodies out of their musical bag. "Deep in My Heart," with its ubiquitous "cheesy" Farfisa and Zaremba's mock crooning matches Romans Gods's "Hope Come Back" for hook quotient, while the mockingly stupid "Screamin Skull" competes with the Cramps' "Human Fly" for pure schlock brilliance...

Author: By Michael W. Hirschorn, | Title: The Real Thing | 7/6/1983 | See Source »

Between women's lib and gay lib, the sexual twists at the modern office can get grotesque. Mazzei devotes a chapter to "Women at Work" and another to "When Cupid Gets Stupid." Among his guidelines: do not compliment women for wearing appropriate business dress; be sure to tell your employer if you are bringing a gay lover to a formal company occasion. Mazzei offers a couple of pages of suggestions on the issue of a kiss on the cheek, warning that it can often end up with "a clash of eyeglass frames and a lot of confusion." When conducting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Office Etiquette | 6/13/1983 | See Source »

...that "the mentality of the 1980s will be to try to limit the number of successful women." Says she: "The men are starting to worry about being run over by hordes of ambitious young women, and the woman who tells me she is not afraid of discrimination is too stupid for me to hire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: The New Women in Court | 5/30/1983 | See Source »

...first place, the Sparts have a strange way of supporting Local 26. They "widely" circulate their own stupid leaflet, tailored to alienate anyone who comes near it, show up for about an hour at the rally, and leave. I saw about four Sparts sitting by themselves in the upper balcony, not participating at all in what was a genuine victory for the genuine working class. This behavior must be part of their "proud history of strike support work at Harvard." In any case, it typifies Spart tactics: opposing authentic democratic movements, exploiting all causes for sectarian purposes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Sparts | 5/23/1983 | See Source »

...prodigious leaper. I am a bird"). Lights burn late in House rooms ("Look at it this way, Silas, Louis Quinze is to the Pompadour as you are to ... "). Some seek recourse to the warm reassurance of love not dependent on academic achievement ("Sally, if I were stupid would you still love me the way I love you?"). Others seek recourse to the warm reassurance of physical exhilaration independent of academic achievement ("I'm not going to get out of shape this exam period. Hell, no, I unicycle out to Revere Beach every morning...

Author: By George H. Rosen, | Title: Beating the System | 5/20/1983 | See Source »

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