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...woman in the Coop decides not to transgress. She settles for safe romance, rather than any sort of subversive statement about her relationship to the man she tells me is her "soon-to-be" husband...

Author: By Susan B. Glasser, | Title: A Woman's View... | 2/14/1990 | See Source »

...People who talk about the breakdown in the relations between the signifier and the signified and use all sorts of lit-crit terms like "transgress" and "privilege" as a verb...

Author: By Elizabeth L. Wurtzel, | Title: A Remedy for the Harvard Sickness | 3/24/1989 | See Source »

Tommy's thrives on the tantalizing moment that exists between when it attracts customers through its doors and when it kicks them back out. Step insider and you've centered an arena with its own rules--transgress once and you're back outside...

Author: By Theodore P. Friesd, | Title: The Allure of Cheesesteak and Abuse | 2/22/1985 | See Source »

...very real dangers of having a gun in the home: they cause an overwhelming number of accidents. More than half of the 10,000 people who were killed by handguns in 1983 were shot by relatives, friends, or acquaintances, according to the FBI. If a policeman were to transgress the rights of a homeowner in trying to enforce restrictions, the NRA would react like a whip, further polarizing the two factions and forcing an understanding or a solution back out the door. Since the communities are test cases, vulnerable to attack in a way that federal restrictions would...

Author: By J. ANDREW Mendelsohn, | Title: Taking Aim | 11/27/1984 | See Source »

...South African regime is in a unique category: its constitution and laws transgress the basic truth that all people are created equal. To that truth--that veritas--this University has always been dedicated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ACSR Statement | 5/11/1984 | See Source »

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