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...have not been told to wink at this andignore it, but it is complicated and there is noequation that we follow," he said...

Author: By Steven A. Engel, | Title: Alcohol Warnings Are Rare | 10/19/1993 | See Source »

...recounts no less than eight stories and deploys 24 major actors, signals large aspiration and a desire to present a panoramic vision of life in what everyone is now pleased to think of as the heart of American darkness. Los Angeles, the city that has in a wink of history's eye ceased to be Everyman's Great Utopia, has become instead everyone's Great Dystopia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Heart of American Darkness | 10/4/1993 | See Source »

This third-grade pre-dilection for cheap sex puns has really gotten out of control. Even Peer Contraceptive Counselors, who spend a great deal of their time trying to get tittering first-years to talk about sex frankly, give us a nudge and a wink as they proclaim, "We're there for you when things get hard." Beavis and Butt-head might laugh at this...

Author: By Benjamin J. Heller, | Title: Life is Short--Poster Hard | 10/2/1993 | See Source »

What's remarkable is not so much that students enjoy this sort of prurience but that house officials and faculty affiliates wink (or leer?) at it. So much for in loco parents...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fine House | 3/13/1993 | See Source »

...left, outgoing spy chief ROBERT GATES urged them to reject a $1 billion cut in the program's budget. Senators described the $1 billion slash as a 5% cut. If 5% of the budget is $1 billion, the program's budget must be $20 billion. Intelligence officials, with a wink, confirm the figure. Basic math skills + common sense = government secrets revealed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 5% of X = $1 Billion. Solve for X. | 3/8/1993 | See Source »

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