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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson: Why then didn't it make sense to block the upper doors? That way you could have made your point while letting the diplomat leave by the door he wanted...

Author: By Matthew H. Joseph, | Title: A Symbolic Conversation | 4/22/1987 | See Source »

SASC Leader: A real blockade is when real people situate themselves in such a way as to deter movement across a barrier. Our blockade didn't prevent Kent-Brown from leaving. He could have left by the upper doors, or he could have navigated around the protesters at the lower doors. The protesters at the lower doors weren't there to prevent the vice-consul from leaving by those exits. They were there only to make a point...

Author: By Matthew H. Joseph, | Title: A Symbolic Conversation | 4/22/1987 | See Source »

...Popcorn, chairman of New York City's BrainReserve, a hip consulting firm. "There is a desire for security, privacy, a nest. Anything you can make that is easy and secure, warm and available, you can market to their cocoon." Philip Kotler, professor of marketing at Northwestern, divides DINKs into upper and lower classes: U-DINKs and L-DINKs. No doubt, while the L-DINKs are rushing to graduate from K mart to Marshall Field, the U-DINKs will be deserting the Banana Republic for Abercrombie & Fitch. Because busy U-DINKs tend to miss mass-media advertising, upscale magazines and direct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Here Come the DINKs | 4/20/1987 | See Source »

...that the Pollard affair was a "rogue" operation. "I don't think it will point a finger at the political leadership, but it will point to a very disorganized system that permitted this operation in the first place," says a Shamir aide. "It will point to a lack of upper- level control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel Sagging Spirits | 4/20/1987 | See Source »

THERE'S REALLY not much in Cambridge for the social critic. Where Oscar Wilde had the stuffy yet elegant mannerisms of the Victorian British upper class to sharpen his quill against, his Cantabrigian counterparts have nothing more than faded rebels and pseudo-punks as the objects...

Author: By Rutger Fury, | Title: Taking the Town | 4/18/1987 | See Source »

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