Word: things
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard's allowing him to come on campus isdefinitely not a good thing," Marsh said...
...highly unlikely that Mockler consciously conspired to create that message. His only real goal is to sell razors, and he probably just told the Globe reporter the first thing he thought of. Nevertheless, his words--like those of most corporate advertisers--serve to gloss over huge social as well as material inequalities: We're all in this facial thing together, the whole world over. For the first time, a Gillette razor will have the same name worldwide. And worldwide we'll all be happy with "the best...
...passersby smiling and talking: teenagers, old couples, a fellow dressed in muscles and a camouflage shirt at a tire store, bicyclists in bicycle suits. Other conspicuous cars are costly and imposing and draw hate waves, as they are intended to. Decent householders glare, knowing you couldn't own the thing unless you were a drug dealer or a peculating corpocrat. The Miata is relatively cheap, if one of your relatives is a rich uncle. Its base price is under $14,000, though optional doodads push the price to $15,000 or more. Beyond that, surcharges that dealers are able...
...tell his ball club, "If you're not enjoying this, you should get a real job." The mood is infectious, whether it is .300-hitting first baseman Mark Grace describing the pennant race as "really neat" or rookie phenom Dwight Smith likening the season to a "dream." Only one thing stands between the Cubs and ecstasy: the ragtag St. Louis Cardinals, managed by Whitey Herzog, the game's resident genius...
WORLD: Soviet President Gorbachev, still a master politician, has a problem with "the vision thing...