Word: yin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...goes on in,this subversive cell is much like what men heard leaking out from under the closed doors of support groups that women were forming a few years ago: which is to say, a lot of sympathetically listened-to grumbling about the other sex. But "support" is a yin word, and "empowerment" is a yang word, and yang, the elusive and rarely detected male principle, is what these three troublemakers are talking about...
...Food and Drug Administration has designated the cap an "investigational device." Beginning this week, caps will be available only to women enrolled in research studies. The agency notes that no major published work on the caps' safety and effectiveness has appeared since 1953. Says Dr. Lillian Yin of the FDA: "We just don't know if there will be a problem with abrasion of the cervix, and we don't know what will be the rate of infection or the long-term problem with tissue erosion." But critics charge that the FDA is being overcautious...
...Playboy Guide to Electronic Entertainment, some pop stars were asked what albums they had been listening to lately. While most listed mainstream stuff like Pink Floyd and the Police, David Byrne, leader of the Talking Heads, mentioned "Vietnam Music Instrumental Popular Songs" by Tran Quang Hai and Bach Yin, "Ethiopian Polyphony and Vocal Techniques" and "The Popular Music of North Africa" (on Vogue Records in case the Coop is out of it and you have to order...
...complete absence of mention about the rioters assaults on police, the most important determinant for making arrests. Over 180 unarmed security personnel were injured in the attacks, in which the demonstrators wielded torches, iron bars and spiked clubs while shouting threats like "Beat them to death!" ("P'a hou yin hsi!" in the Chinese Min-nan dialect). The rioters even looted a police station and injured the staff there. The police, on the other hand, were forbidden to fight back. Unlike the impression conveyed in quotes by Linda Arrigo, no demonstrators were hurt...
...drove it to the edge--toward a blue bowl with silver specks)) a cow hand in the Drby whipping a thoroughbred to the line. Sophisticaiton could not repel spirit. Yang rammed a screaming yin across the night sky. He brought into his gut the paragon of rationality and the pride of corporate innovation and technology and regergitated it all over the heavans with an ass slappin' yell. Western, righteous stuff was taking it eastward home to its staid, straight beginnings, sp.tting and yawping...