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Dingman refused to supply the breakdown of transfers accepted and rejected by House because he said he does not want these statistics to reflect poorly on any Houses in particular...
...1980s personalities undergoing sexual identity crises. Engel consults various social scientists whom only the victim of a bad Social Studies seminar would ever have read. The androgyny rating is a reflection of the quality of our society, their spiel goes, and an admirable result of the breakdown of sexual barriers. Some blithe comments on Calvin Klein underwear, David Bowie, Boy George, and Harvey Fierstein are marshalled to support his belief that the sexes are converging, but Engel blows it in a big was when he use Prunce as an example of androgyny: Prince is not interested in becoming a woman...
Obviously not happy with the left or the right, Ginsberg shuns talk of political protest; instead his themes run the gamut of psycho-sociological critique. In something of a Durkheimian manner, his poems mourn the depersonalization and breakdown of non-business community ties that spring from the industrialization, specialization and corporate demeanor of modern society...
...year, there have been at least eleven assassinations, nearly all by leftist gunmen. Further negotiations between the government and representatives of the leftist guerrilla groups are unlikely until after the elections. Reason: mounting right-wing opposition to a negotiated settlement. Rebel leaders, of course, contend that the breakdown of the peace talks means the Salvadoran military is now effectively back in control. According to Ruben Zamora, the bearded vice president of the Democratic Revolutionary Front, the guerrilla movement's political arm, "Duarte has no power...
...regulars ride in a regular car and get there on time to get a seat," admonishes a marketing man from the midst of a seated cluster of pinochle players. He offers the irregular rider further lore of the Long Island: "They have a total breakdown only about once a year, the kind of disaster you sense before you even get down the stairs at Penn Station. The crowd will be waiting shoulder to shoulder, and you will hear over the loudspeaker, 'Mmchshrum drillblitterich,' which translated means, 'Due to switch trouble, all Long Island trains will be delayed.' The only thing...