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Teaching a group of musical-minded students Wednesday, Bowie exhibited all the color of a spirited orchestra conductor. "Loud!" he shouted, waving his cane in the air. "Play that stuff as loud as you were never allowed...

Author: By Ari Z. Posner, | Title: All That Jazz | 4/6/1984 | See Source »

...just have to see Jesse," says Darryl Richards of East Harlem. "I think if Gary Hart or Walter Mandrel care cane people would...

Author: By Paul DUKE Jr., SPECIAL TO THE COMMON | Title: Jackson Courts New York Minority Vote | 4/2/1984 | See Source »

...moved to Sag Harbor, a resort and fishing village on the eastern end of Long Island. All along, his life was like a badly made play; none of the people or places quite seemed to fit the man, any more than did the costume he sometimes affected: black cape, cane and broad-brimmed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Man Who Belonged Nowhere | 1/23/1984 | See Source »

Castro noted in his speech that at nine sugar refineries under construction in the country, 60% of the components were produced in Cuba. He maintained that mechanization had increased to the point where 100,000 sugar-cane cutters were doing the work formerly done by 350,000, and that similar productivity gains applied to other branches of industry. Castro heaped scorn on some other Latin American nations, particularly Brazil, where huge foreign debts accompany "constant reports of social calamities, unemployment, hunger, inflation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cuba: From Spontaneity to Stagnation | 1/16/1984 | See Source »

...windy presenter said that the President, like the hickory cane, was unbending, un yielding and several other ways of saying "stiff." Coolidge, the soul of taciturnity, took the cane, sighted down the shaft, said "Ash," and sat down.) Lyle gives the impression that renovating the house made his nose feel like a paymaster's window. So far, $25,000 has been eaten by the structure. And in thinning his purse, the innkeeper says he has learned something about the Yankee tradesman's sense of priorities. If, for ex ample, the Wolfs' prehistoric heating sys tem goes blooey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Vermont: Keeping Up with Keeping Inns | 1/9/1984 | See Source »

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