FIRST PERSON TO solve the crossword puzzle wins a date with the Editorial Board member of your choice. You need to get out of the house more often.
Clinton’s political behavior suggests that if he ever went to the track, he’d be betting a few dollars on every horse in the race.
Timothy Leary requested that his ashes be placed in orbit on some future space flight. Still looking for new ways to get high.
Why is it that children whose normal speaking volume threatens to crack glass, lapse into an audible mumble when they get on stage for a school play?
When the revolution comes to Detroit, there will undoubtedly be barricades built on W. Canfield Street. Not that it’s a particularly strategic location, but it does have cobblestones.
Any politician who doubts the need for legislation to fight homophobia should try to walk around wearing a Gay Pride button for about a week.
If you want the best seat in the house, just move the cat.
How’s this for a fundraiser? First we collect from a bunch of parents who want to end their children to "farm camp" for he summer. Then we bus the kids down to Ohio and hire them out to pick tomatoes for Campbell...after we sign them up with FLOC, of course.
"Vegetarian" derives from an Iroquois word meaning "clumsy hunter."
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1. Let the (5 down) be _______," Vishinsky
2. "Bandiera ______"
3. "The Shooter" (Dr. Z.)
4. Special Executive for the Suppression of Counter-Revolution, Terrorism and Profiteering
5. The leadership of the Bolshevik revolution, according to V.
6. A 1950s socialist weekly
8. The Great Helmsman
9. Kicked out of the CIO in 1949
12. "The Renegade _______"
13. Commandante _______ (ex-Sandinista)
17. Would agree with Father Flanagan
18. Our kind of babies
21. Before New Directions (UAW)
23. Too soft on JFK to ever become a Marxist
25. "__" The Line, Harvey Swados
27. A Revolutionary Romance
29. Sinn Fein’s military arm
34. Keeps on Trucking
ACROSS
3. Max the Knife
7. Uncle _______
8. The commissar’s best friend
10. Comrade of another species
11. Lincoln and Brumberg
13. Too many assorted sectarians
14. Leader of Brazilian Workers Party
15. Illegitimate descendant of 4 down
16. An Armenian-American in Paris
19. "No reform is possible without the ______," Peter the Great
20. Workers Unified Marxist Party (hint: "Land and Freedom")
22. "Brightest Flower of the Yugo"
24. Life magazine accurately described him as "the Russian equivalent of an old Indian fighter." One of Stalin’s favorite incompetent generals
26. 1960s feminists had these kind of sessions (abb.)
28. Andres or Anais
30. S/___ (PC reference)
31. Endangered liberals
32. Went from reformism to stalinism, without an intervening period of Bolshevism
33. The Old Folky
35. "We are members of the _____ International"
36. "___ the Revolution"
ATC 64, September-October 1996