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Authorities theorize that Henry entered the unlocked dorm, went to the third floor and entered freely into Cleary's unlocked room. Henry allegedly strangled her with the spring wire from a wind-up toy, The New York Times reported Wednesday...
Fusco captured what was the most disconcerting thing about a really unnerving evening. The visitors seemed numb--like 21 wind-up red, white and silver mannequins oblivious of time and place...
...Patents, Copyrights, and Licensing booth advertised "invention advice" for 5 cents and featured a collapsible geodesic dome made of coffee-stirrers and dental floss a wind-up jumping mouse that went up in the space shuttle, and a coin bank whose skeletal, green hand emerges from inside to snatch pennies...
That's a long wind-up to make a very small point. Were the Final Clubs central to life at Harvard, one could see reason, possibly compelling, for insisting they practice fairness, equity, democracy, non-discrimination, etcetera. But, nowadays, the Clubs need be central to no one's life; it is doubtful they're central to the lives of most who join them. Why, then, is it skin off anyone's nose if they are exclusive, discriminatory, aristocratic, or male chauvinist? Why not live and let live...
...rise and we don't care how,/Give us a revolution...now!" The link between mass revolt and sexual lust is the theme of another rollicking song: "And what is the point of a revolution/But general copulation?" On the word "copulation", the singers perform a neatly-choreographed little wind-up dance...