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...They've been using our contract like it's toilet paper," she said, adding that discussions with ARA could not achieve anything...

Author: By Adam M. Gottlieb, | Title: Bus Drivers Return to Work; More Disagreements Develop | 11/4/1980 | See Source »

...young divorcee (Diana Canova) and her haranguing father (Danny Thomas). Diana is sweet and smart, but, in the opening episode at least, it is father who knows best: he turns from Jewish mother to father confessor in record time. She must endure his sudden wisdom even as she trades toilet and underwear jokes with the rest of the cast, including her boss (Sheree North), who has an I.Q. of 190 but talks only of trysts with men who dress up in rubber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Bodies in Question | 11/3/1980 | See Source »

...vision of scholarly and scientific books being reduced to toilet paper was instant grist for Russell Baker's saturnine mill. Observed the humorist in his New York Times column: "Thus is the produce of the most fertile brain placed at the disposal of the masses. The most advanced mind is able to serve the humblest illiterate by being applied to contain a sneeze, to comfort some tender portion of the flesh, to absorb perhaps a dollop of fish grease which has landed on the kitchen floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Taxman's Ax | 11/3/1980 | See Source »

...University has never officially recognized the assembly in the three years since it was created by the vote of a majority of undergraduates. Now operating under "provisional" recognition until the Dowling Committee completes its review, the assembly has an unimpressive record of past accomplishments--from free toilet paper to a rock concert--contributing to the widespread perception that it is little more than a plaything for "gov jocks...

Author: By Alan Cooperman, | Title: Reassembling Leviathan | 10/22/1980 | See Source »

...uninitiated--called "virgins"--the audience has seen the movie one, two, five, ten or fifty times before, they have memorized all the lines, and added quite a few of their own; they throw rice and cards and toast and confetti and hot dogs and rolls of toilet paper, squirt water pistols and light candles (or shine flashlights, depending on fire regulations) at appropriate moments; they act the movie out on stage as it appears on screen. And now a sequel film, Shock Treatment, is in the works...

Author: By James G. Hershberg, | Title: Transsexual Entrancement | 10/21/1980 | See Source »

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