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...dear Uncle Sam. I can just see that eccentric old geezer striding out into the daylight again, rolling up his sleeves and getting down to work -- feeding the hungry, healing the sick, scrubbing the environment, giving us an infrastructure that isn't made out of balsa wood and rubber cement. So free Uncle Sam and take my money! I wouldn't mind paying taxes -- to a government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Let Them Eat Tax Forms | 4/20/1992 | See Source »

...Moore, whose son Ian was also shot to death, in another picture. Rather, Sinkler is seen wearing a baseball cap, one hand resting on his hip, the other on a gate in the school. His eyes seem closed, but they're not. He's just looking down to the cement ground, as if the answers are to be found in the cracks on the pavement...

Author: By Philip M. Rubin, | Title: Despair in Brooklyn | 3/2/1992 | See Source »

Harvard's second line chipped in a goal early in the third period, to cement Harvard's victory. Kim Landry pumped in a Jen Minkus rebound to boost the score...

Author: By Joanne Nelson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Icewomen Down Eagles in 'Pot, 5-1 | 2/5/1992 | See Source »

...looks like pond sludge. Never fear. The Body Shop also carries rough-hewn products like Henna Cream Shampoo, which looks like a jar of copper-colored vaseline mixed with mud, because it contains no artificial colors or color stabilizers. The "Men's Rhassoul Mud Soap" resembles a small cement brick. For women, there's "Wheatscrub Soap", made of wheatgerm and cinnamon, which is supposed to "exfoliate" your skin, and a milk bath that contains oats and avocado oil. Apparently the Body Shop doesn't know the inside of the body from the outside...

Author: By Jendi B. Reiter, | Title: Just Don't Eat the Soap! | 1/17/1992 | See Source »

...sequel to Home Alone, which is now before the cameras, Kit Culkin reportedly extracted from 20th Century-Fox a contract worth $5 million, and a guarantee of $2.5 million for a cast-against-type part for his son in a thriller, The Good Son. Written by Ian McEwan (The Cement Garden, The Innocent), The Good Son is about good and evil doppelganger siblings. The money will be paid out whether or not the film, which has the boy playing the psychotic brother, gets made. Did the elder Culkin want The Good Son because Mack already has too many cute-little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At Home, but Not Alone | 12/9/1991 | See Source »

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