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...most interesting match will come when the nation's number-two collegiate squash player, Princeton's Keen Butcher, squares off against Pandole, currently ranked third in the country...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Racquetmen, Tigers Tangle | 2/7/1987 | See Source »

...Darius is a great shooter," Butcher said. "He's a power-and touch player...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Racquetmen, Tigers Tangle | 2/7/1987 | See Source »

...would be. Scenes that read well on the page wouldn't play well." The motivating greed that drives the plot wound up being shifted from real estate to cocaine, and some of the gorier scenes were muted. "A horror film has to be delicate or it becomes a butcher shop," explains the author. There was also a larger difference. "When you're a novelist, it's all yours and your relation to the work is husband, father, grandfather and slave all in one. A movie director is directly the opposite: you're living out in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 1, 1986 | 12/1/1986 | See Source »

...where she and her father stay and where Billy has fallen a wee bit behind in paying the bills. After this rude assault, Ellen has an insight about her corporeal self and that of women in general: "A Female Body is not just a piece of liver from the butcher . . . It is more like a musical instrument made of flesh and blood that has music waiting inside it but only for properly trained hands to coax out. Make the bastards learn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: For He's a Jolly Good Fellow the Pianoplayers | 11/17/1986 | See Source »

...Wisdom Academy. Ozone Park, then as now, was a neighborhood of two-story row houses with small, well-tended yards, awnings over the windows and crucifixes above the doors. Most of its residents were Italian and middle class. She would pass mom-and-pop stores, funeral parlors, and butcher shops that displayed an array of Italian sausages in the window. On her right, she often glanced at an inconspicuous red brick building known, oddly enough, as the Bergen Hunt and Fish Club. It caught her attention because there were always men loitering out front. She recalls wondering, What do these...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Two From the Neighborhood | 9/29/1986 | See Source »

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