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WHEN SPRING COMES TO THE CITIES OF JAPAN, salarymen dutifully assemble under cherry blossoms, and drunkenly bawl songs in what is really only a quainter version of St. Patrick's Day. In the fall, supermarkets hang paper leaves from their cash registers, and cigarette makers issue packages featuring autumn colors. To a jaded foreigner such an observation can seem as formulaic and debased as the Muzaked versions of Jingle Bells that torment every department store from Bangor to Bangkok...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPRING BREAK, HERE WE COME | 4/1/1996 | See Source »

...never been married which was great for me. Ireally loved it. Looking at my friends' familydynamics I feel really privileged to have grown upwith two women who never fought and who neverpresented any obstacles." Like many proud parents,Tracey's mom says "I'm so proud I could bawl...

Author: By Natasha H. Leland, | Title: Tracey L. Carter can barely sit still. She leans backwards over the Chair then swings back up to answer my questions. | 6/8/1995 | See Source »

...first time since 1978, a mayor of New York City was proposing a budget smaller than the previous year's. The actual difference -- about $102 million sliced out of $31.6 billion, or just 0.3% less than the current budget -- still caused critics to carp and unions to bawl. But Giuliani remained adamant. "Disagree with us about how we distribute the pie," said the Republican, "but agree with us that it has to be a smaller pie." It was Giuliani's most substantial signal that New York City -- the biggest spender of them all -- was joining a movement trying to transform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Waste Not, Want Not | 5/23/1994 | See Source »

Most Star-Mangled Banner Even George Bush didn't have to read her lips to know that Roseanne Barr's televised rendition of the national anthem before a San Diego Padres baseball game was a foul bawl. It was not only screechy, it was scratchy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Most of Show Business | 12/31/1990 | See Source »

...tries Tyson could not quite best the eventual gold-medal winner, Henry Tillman, who fought him backing up (Spinks' style, incidentally). When the second decision was handed down, Tyson stepped outside the arena and began to weep, actually to bawl, a cold kind of crying that carried for a distance. He was a primitive again. As the U.S. boxing team trooped through the airport after the trials, a woman mistakenly directed her good wishes to the alternate, Tyson. "She must mean good luck on the flight," said the superheavyweight Tyrell Biggs, a future Tyson opponent who would rue his joke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Boxing's Allure | 6/27/1988 | See Source »

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