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...appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Through the Eyes Of Children | 8/8/1988 | See Source »

...know it, 'cause they're just stringin' words t'gether, fast as they can. Sorta like Jack Kerouac, drivin' thru Colorado like a prophet, n' sayin' t' himself, "Wow!" Sorta like what you'd say if you subconsciously knew someone was gonna sneak up behind you and dump a bucket of shit on your head, but there was nothin' you could do about...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: Just a Story About Some Cowboys | 7/19/1988 | See Source »

...shoestring, these made-for-home-video cassettes are doing well if they sell 20,000 or 30,000 copies (at prices ranging from $10 to $40). Says Bob Alexander, whose consulting firm Alexander & Associates tracks the home-video industry: "The dollars involved are a drop in the bucket in terms of the marketplace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Freaks, Dorfs and Betsy Wetsy | 7/4/1988 | See Source »

...predawn roadwork by himself on the boardwalk, grateful for the solitude. "I don't have any friends. I get paranoid around a lot of people. I can't relax." Besides Rooney and Cutman Matt Baranski, only Steve Lott is admitted to the inner sanctum. "I'm the spit-bucket man," Lott says with shining eyes. "I would give my life for that." He was a handball buddy of Jimmy Jacobs', an honored player who died at 58 last March, reportedly of leukemia. Jacobs and his business partner Cayton, keepers of the most extensive film archives in boxing, were longtime benefactors...

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

Harvard trainers also benefit by comparison with English trainers, known for their "magic sponge" treatments, English athletes say. "At home they bring out a bucket of cold water, and whatever's wrong, they wipe the spot with a sponge," soccer player Nick Gates '91 says...

Author: By Ryan W. Chew, | Title: Harvard Trainers Keep Athletes Healthy | 5/13/1988 | See Source »

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