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...sure...but the pieces are falling into place. He keeps getting little parcel notes in his mail box informing him of the large arms shipments arriving in the superintendent's office. He's tried to hide the slips, but I've seen them! He is growing a long beard and is starting to smoke unfiltered cigarettes. UNFILTERED!! Can you believe it? He is growing fonder and fonder of Marxist criticism-in fact, I think I overheard him making cracks about laissez-faire economic policies! What should I do?? --Worried in Winthrop...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Extracurricular Extraordinaire | 4/20/1995 | See Source »

...wedding. Laura B., as she is called in a New Hampshire court proceeding, did not tell anyone about the assault because, she claims, she repressed all memory of the ordeal. Only after she began therapy a year later did the horror resurface. "It was his hands. It was his beard. It was his body,'' she said last week in a pretrial hearing before Judge William Groff. "He ripped the covers off my bed, pinned my arms over my head and pushed my legs apart." Hungerford denies all charges and has pleaded not guilty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEMORY ON TRIAL | 4/17/1995 | See Source »

...that he wanted much. For the last 20 years of his life, Fairweather lived in a grass-thatch shanty he built for himself on Bribie Island off the coast of Queensland-no tropical paradise, but flat, mosquito-plagued and covered with ti-tree scrub. He had a scraggy beard and bright, China-blue eyes. His manners were polite and distant. He wasn't engaged in some Gauguin-based fantasy. He was simply living the way that suited him best, free from attachment. The locals thought he was a bum, a castaway, but his talent made him a queer and upright...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PECULIAR BUT GRAND | 4/17/1995 | See Source »

...Farmer is a computer programmer with a gold ring in his eyebrow, a curly shock of orange hair and a tendency to tug on the beard of authority. Last Wednesday, on the day that Farmer turned 33, he gave a gift to the computer world: a fiendish little software device called SATAN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE DEVIL IN THE NETWORK | 4/17/1995 | See Source »

Bunyan, once the greatest logger of them all, and his emotionally delicate cobalt-blue ox, Babe, have fled from the industrialization of logging in the Northwest to the California redwoods. Swathed in fringed and beaded leather, his beard tied with a thong and the ensemble topped with a fur hat, he resembles a strange kind of bear. His hilarious bouts of self-pity and childishness make Bunyan the perfect counterpart to his more serious companions...

Author: By Cicely V. Wedgeworth, | Title: Disney Stands Tall with `Tales' | 3/23/1995 | See Source »

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