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...middle of his account (look up, reader, for a Holstein is about to drop), Windsor wrote: "I was probably the only person at the game that day who had been kissed by a cow. Early that morning I walked to the barn . . . and as I put a bucket of sweet feed over the fence, Chocolate, my big, black and beautiful cow that I used to carry everywhere in my arms, gave me a big lick on the cheek. Jesus don't love souls anymore than I love that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In North Carolina: Beware of Falling Cows | 4/18/1983 | See Source »

...fourth is an older woman in a designer suit. Peewee, a gentle black, is injecting heroin into his arm, each time drawing a little blood back into the syringe. This pumping technique, known as booting, prolongs the rush. Afterward, Peewee empties the blood in the syringe into a brimming bucket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fighting Cocaine's Grip: Get Your 'Lucky Seven' Here | 4/11/1983 | See Source »

Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci has constantly criticized the University for shirking its obligations, and he recently called its contribution "a drop in the bucket...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tax Exemption Battle Simmers As Harvard Defends Privileges | 4/5/1983 | See Source »

...better or worse, this is the scene no viewer of The Meaning of Life will ever wipe out of memory. In it, a grotesquely bloated Terry Jones waddles into a posh eatery and angrily orders at least a double portion of everything on the menu-and a bucket in order that he may conveniently throw up. This he proceeds to do endlessly, finally unwatchably, the while continuing to gorge himself until he literally bursts. It sounds horrible. It is horrible. It is also extraordinarily funny. For the headwaiter, sublimely played by John Cleese, hovers fussily over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Fine Kettle of Fish | 3/28/1983 | See Source »

After Greg Wildes hit a baseline jumper to balance a Dartmouth tally. Dixon nabbed a steal and broke away for the lay-in that put the Crimson on top to stay. Monroe Trout added a back-door bucket to stretch the margin to four, and Pluinicki finished what he had started with a baseline 12-footer...

Author: By Mike Knobler, | Title: Plutnicki Scores 18 Points As Cagers Destroy Dartmouth | 1/10/1983 | See Source »

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