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...class was ending, I asked Professor O'Connor a question I had long pondered: Was it O.K. to swear during sex, if done in an encouraging and loving way? "As long as your partner likes it, and if it's all part of the action, that's not a problem." I told him I meant when I was alone. That was an uncomfortable moment for both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stop Cursing...and Start Living! | 6/28/1999 | See Source »

...wonder that these guys were finally deemed ready for their close-up? And can a David E. Kelley dramedy set in some com start-up in Palo Alto be more than a couple of pilot seasons away? The millennium approaches, and--we swear, after this we'll retire the line forever--the geeks have indeed inherited the earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Way They Were | 6/14/1999 | See Source »

...This is a total legend," Epps says. "I would never say such a thing, but some people swear that...

Author: By Rachel P. Kovner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'Baby Dean' Epps Manhandled by Students, Saw Fateful Decision Made | 6/8/1999 | See Source »

...their hand, for they regarded them as sacred. This custom is mentioned in the Old Testament. In the King James translation, the passage reads, "And Abraham said: 'unto his eldest servant of his house... Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh: And I will make thee swear...'" In the future when Hollywood makes a biblical or Roman epic, it might include a scene of a man testifying in the authentic manner...a reel grabber. TOM GILL North Beach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 31, 1999 | 5/31/1999 | See Source »

...Shatema, why can't we use this hip hop that you swear is yet to come attack the existing canon of hip hop's objectification and hatred of women, the males' insistence that we look half-black and Filipino or we won't see them? It should and will (I have thousands of things to say on that subject). We have to keep the problems straight in our mind and not attack sexism like it's a new thing, created by hip hop. True, women are most likely to be killed by someone they know, but why? Femme...

Author: By Shatema A. Threadcraft, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Girls at the Party?: This calls for something new. | 5/7/1999 | See Source »

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