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...PROPOSED Cabot House t-shirt slogans last year was "It's a long walk, but the rooms suck...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shuttle Rebuttal | 10/19/1985 | See Source »

...fears that a lot of kids have: of a society of the netherworld living under my bed, of monsters living in the closet waiting to suck me in and do terrible things to me. There was a crack in the wall by my bed that I stared at all the time, imagining little friendly people living in the crack. One day while I was staring at the crack, it suddenly opened about five inches, and little pieces fell out of it. That really happened. I was afraid of clouds, the wind, trees -- there was a forest outside my window...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Autobiography of Peter Pan | 7/15/1985 | See Source »

...cutback in life and health coverage for workers, led a phenomenal lobbying blitz. A $6 million ad campaign included one twelve-minute film that described taxing fringe benefits as "the worst little horror show in taxes" and showed a Dracula character, presumably the U.S. Government, ready to suck the blood out of the hapless taxpayer. The Administration changed its mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Addicted to the Loophole Habit: Reagan's tax plan | 5/27/1985 | See Source »

Note that verb: sucked. It describes nearly every aspect of the project. The song, The video, The event, Even if Jones did post a sign declaring "Check your egos," this whole affair is little more than a concerted media suck-up to glitterati public images, and of one singer's ceiling mirror image in particular...

Author: By Charles M. Sneid, | Title: We Fooled the World | 4/11/1985 | See Source »

Regarding the recent "Life on the Bench" editorial concerning Peter J. Howe's reading graffiti ("Liber Als Suck," to beprecise) on a subway bench, I would like to suggest that if the basic American conservative philosophy can be summarized as "men must be free" then the basic liberal argument can be simplified to "all men must be equal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Graffiti Wisdom | 2/2/1985 | See Source »

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