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...javelin thrower; at least I wore a uniform that said I was"); his early years with music ("Stunk at everything I did. Music was the one thing I felt proud of"); his first encounter with Sandy Mahl, whom he would marry in 1986 (Brooks was a bouncer in a club. She threw a punch that went through a wall. But "I don't want anyone to think she's not a lady"); and his hungry times before breaking through, when he "went to Nashville expecting to see my name up on water tanks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Country Classicists | 9/24/1990 | See Source »

...warehouseman. Then the two quarreled bitterly, reportedly over his fondness for her niece, and she ordered him to leave her apartment. Now living in a tiny room and hustling for handouts on the street, he wanted her to take him back. She refused. When he swore at her, a bouncer ordered him to leave. He did, but with a parting threat: "I will be back. I will shut this place down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Devil Made Him Do It | 4/9/1990 | See Source »

...couple of years, Gaultier's spectacles have been upstaged by those of a former employee, Martin Margiela, the current darling of the avant- garde. For his show, Margiela, 31, rented an old railroad station now used as a truck depot. The scene outside resembled a hot disco, with a bouncer deciding who of the throng would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: Throw Out Your Skirts | 4/2/1990 | See Source »

...Holmes advised. We live in inundations of information. The air is dense with billions of fleeting names, images, factoids, electronic dust. Information jitters round in a Brownian movement. But there is a way to impose order on this incoherence. The mind must be a discriminating host. It needs a bouncer at the door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Let Us Recuse Ourselves Awhile | 3/5/1990 | See Source »

...burly young bouncer to keep...

Author: By B. K. Wenceslaus, | Title: Crimson Beneficence | 12/19/1989 | See Source »

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