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...victory over the bottle. There are references to the Senator's compulsive rovings, Joan's search for a more attentive man ("I need a man in my life and I don't just mean 'safe' men"), notes on the contents of her refrigerator ("frozen lobster newburgh, creamed chicken, diet root beer, Tab, and Dr Pepper") and a bit of advice about cosmetic surgery attributed to Sister-in-Law Jackie: "First the eyes, second the face, and third the boobs." But the book's real scandal is one of betrayal, by Chellis. Joan Kennedy apparently believed that her book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bookends: Oct. 14, 1985 | 10/14/1985 | See Source »

Pinkham began selling her 'medicine' in 1873, winning satisfied customers with such crowd-pleasing ingredients as black cohosh, true and false unicorn, liferoot plant, dandelion, and the ever-popular pleurisy root--with a whopping dose of alcohol thrown in "purely as a solvent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Library Tapes Veggie Records With Grant | 10/10/1985 | See Source »

Each dining hall serves four out of eight soft drink choices: Coke, Diet Coke, Tab, Sprite, Diet Sprite, orange, root beer, and ginger ale. Coke, the most popular drink, is in every dining hall. Second most popular is Sprite...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Coke Is It In Harvard Dining Halls | 10/8/1985 | See Source »

...matter what the root of sexual harassment at Harvard may be, academics agree that the problem is probably more widespread among other colleges than it would appear. Says Princeton's Danielson: "It's probably the tip of the iceberg, and it's hard to deal with icebergs when you can hardly see the tip."CrimsonIan M. RoseDuring the first week of classes, government graduate student Elaine Swift distributed handouts in front of Professor Jorge Dominguez's class describing the background on the Dominguez harassment case...

Author: By Kristin A. Goss, | Title: Sexual Harassment: Lesson or Legacy? | 10/4/1985 | See Source »

...nearly the only lady in her Long Island suburb who has resisted the oleaginous charms of Dr. Bruce Fleckstein, a periodontist whose hands tend to roam from his drill and who has a taste for taking pictures of his female patients that reveal more than the condition of their root canals. Judith even has the sweetly articulated moral fiber to resist the more attractive proposals of the nice police detective (Raul Julia) who is investigating Dr. Bruce's entirely justifiable homicide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Crimebuster Compromising Positions | 9/23/1985 | See Source »

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