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...with sophomore sensation Scott Bacigalupo in goal for the Tigers, Harvard had as much chance scoring a goal as a burglar has of getting in Fort Knox...

Author: By John C. Ausiello, | Title: Tigers Trounce Crimson, 16-5 | 4/19/1993 | See Source »

SHEREE WILLIAMS AND HER HUSBAND LEROY LYONS came home to a scene of unimaginable horror. While they were away for 45 minutes, all seven of their children, left unattended, had perished in a swift, smoky blaze that gutted their two-story house on Detroit's east side. Iron burglar bars on the windows had prevented the youngsters, ranging in age from seven months to nine years, from escaping. In New York City two children, ages seven and five, died when a fire broke out in the basement of an unlicensed day-care center whose owner had stepped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Home Alone Is No Place to Be | 3/1/1993 | See Source »

...upscale resort island; he's a habitual jailbird, scruffy and not quite bright. Andrew (Samuel L. Jackson) definitely does belong here; he's rich, famous and accomplished. The problem is that he's black, which means just one thing to his new neighbors: he must be a burglar. So as the local sheriff (Dabney Coleman) besieges Andrew's house, AMOS & ANDREW form an alliance, at first mutually suspicious, then mutually instructive, aimed at getting them both back to the mainland unscathed. Writer-director E. Max Frye doesn't quite know how to end his comedy, but his actors know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Short Takes: Mar. 1, 1993 | 3/1/1993 | See Source »

MARTHA SPEAKS by Susan Meddaugh (Houghton Mifflin; $13.95). Martha, your average family pooch, eats the alphabet soup and starts speaking fluent English. Trouble is, she won't stop. Finally the family rises up and orders her to shut up. Which Martha does, until the day a burglar comes to call ... The whimsical author-illustrator gets an occasional case of the cutes. Usually, however, she is wise enough to let the tale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kid-Lit Capers | 12/21/1992 | See Source »

...ones that occur when even compatible people are tossed into the same house together for the first time. Just getting out of the apartment in the morning is a Feydeau farce: she rushes back to open the window (the dog needs air), he rushes back to close it (a burglar might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TV's Generation Gap | 9/14/1992 | See Source »

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