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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...well. Ads for housemates and the personal columns routinely rebuff smokers. "People don't even have ashtrays in their homes anymore," moans Joyce Hernandez, a secretary in Montvale, N.J., who quit last year after attending a dinner party at which she was forced to sneak a puff in, yes, the bathroom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health & Fitness: A Cloudy Forecast for Smokers | 4/7/1986 | See Source »

...MAKE THINGS more difficult, Lucas isn't the only one after the fair maiden. Cap (Charlie Sheen--yes, another member of the family), is also interested. The pregnant irony of this triangle, an irony that could have been better developed, is that Cap and Maggie are united in their friendship with Lucas and the sensitivity which they acquire through him. Lucas, in a sense, creates his own romantic downfall...

Author: By Thomas M. Doyle, | Title: Rocky Goes to High School | 4/4/1986 | See Source »

Many colleges have tried to emphasize challenging people's attitudes about rape as well as suggesting precautions for women. This approach stems from a realization that myths--such as that women want to be raped and that women say "no" when they mean "yes"--have fostered a culture in which date rape can seem acceptable...

Author: By James E. Canning, | Title: Too Busy to Care? | 4/3/1986 | See Source »

Reading further I find that it is a "minority" faulting the report. What a paradox! Why would one "minority" fault another's claims? Is there dissension? Yes. I refer to one short passage to explain this, as it turns out, helpful paradox...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWSA Report | 4/3/1986 | See Source »

...there always something futile, pathetic, uncomfortably personal about the post-script? Displaying its ostensible, self-conscious triviality like an impostor's fake medals, it challenges us to criticize: "Today only the critic executes the work (pun intended)." Yes, but who sentenced it to death...

Author: By Yoon SUN Lee, | Title: Writing on Writing | 4/2/1986 | See Source »

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