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Second, how exactly does Elders want us to teach masturbation? There are a variety of methods from which to choose. I suggest using games and songs. The following should be sung to the tune of the "Hokey Pokey...

Author: By David B. Lat, | Title: Finally, Elders Fired | 12/13/1994 | See Source »

...official circles, Western Europe was delighted at Washington's apparent decision to drop the calls for bombing the Serbs that had so riled Paris and London. Some news accounts crowed that the turnabout marked Europe's first success in calling the tune on a major alliance policy. But how successful is the European line? U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali got a faceful of answers last week as he flew into Sarajevo demanding cease-fires. He left empty-handed amid jeers and snubs, underscoring how low the U.N. stands in Bosnian public opinion. Radovan Karadzic, head of the rebel Serb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Allied in Failure | 12/12/1994 | See Source »

Even before the play begins, and as people are taking their seats, catchy tunes by female singers are piped in. This leads audience members to become so comfortable that they sing along, especially for a tune like Nancy Sinatra's "These Boots are Made for Walkin." Similarly, at the end of the performance, when the actors have disrobed and are standing in their bras and underwear dancing and bobbing around to Cindy Lauper's "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun," the theater is transformed into a party...

Author: By Marco M. Spino, | Title: Theater of The Absurd And Sexy Film Noir | 12/8/1994 | See Source »

Attempts to fine-tune the economy have often misfired. President Jimmy Carter tried to fight double-digit inflation in 1980 by discouraging banks and retailers from making credit-card loans and by appealing to Americans to leave home without their plastic. The tactics worked so well that consumers stopped borrowing and sent the economy into a recession just as Carter sought re- election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Greenspan's Rates of Wrath | 11/28/1994 | See Source »

...tearing at the Administration, even though he is now slated to assume a position of considerable power as the next chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee . Says Raleigh News & Observer political writer Ferrel Guillory -- who has spent many years covering the senator: "The rhetoric he employs is (in tune with) the politics of opposition. "He is better at opposing a program than starting a program." And since this plays well with his voters, don't expect a change in his style. "There's a sense here that you get things from him unvarnished," he says. "He's gotten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HELMS . . . TARRED HEEL'S FOOT IN MOUTH | 11/22/1994 | See Source »

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