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Between bites of peanut butter sandwiches last Saturday, the children agreed. But they couldn't decide which aspect of the program they liked the best...

Author: By Esme C. Murphy, | Title: Students Design Program For Mentally Handicapped | 4/15/1980 | See Source »

...when Emperor Haile Selassie invited him to attend his coronation in Addis Ababa. After ten days of festivities, the impatient guest slipped off on his first caravan. It took him through the unadministered territory of the Danakil, "Slender figures in short loincloths, their mops of hair dressed with melted butter, they had open, attractive faces, but each of them wore across his stomach a large, curved dagger from which hung leather thongs, one for each man that he had killed and castrated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Infidel in the Wilderness | 3/31/1980 | See Source »

...Look," he said to me, as we lined up at the jeweler's to sell teaspoons and butter knives. "Reagan is not only a joke, he's an old joke. And Bush looks like one of those actors they get to play the President in spy movies. You know the phones on his desk aren't connected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Illinois: Imaginary Musings | 3/24/1980 | See Source »

...lived in Chicago, in the neighborhood where the sutdents lived and the cats played soccer with old pears in the gutter. The movie house in the old man's neighborhood reeked of butter. He warned them not to go out after dark but Sammy was an idiot. No one hurt them. They did not even hear footsteps...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: Postcards | 3/15/1980 | See Source »

Royce Miller in the title role blushes so well on stage you believe he's embarrassed when the illusory little red-haired girl won't look at him eating his peanut butter sandwich during lunch hour. Unfortunately, Miller's singing leaves a lot to be desired. It suffers from muffed lines and off-pitch sounds...

Author: By James L. Cott, | Title: From the Peanuts Gallery | 3/13/1980 | See Source »

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