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...Chippendale dining table and matching eight chairs with the diamond-and-scroll back splats came from the Perkinses and should go eventually to Pearl along with the carved sea chest that accompanied Daddy's great-grandaddy back and forth to China countless times and the dear little blackened salt-and-pepper shakers handed down through Mother's mother's mother's people the Prynnes...

Author: By Aline Brosh, | Title: From `A' to `S': What's in a Letter? | 4/9/1988 | See Source »

...Israelis left the area, but soon "we discovered we were being followed by dozens of Arabs," said Fuchs, whose right arm and chest were bandaged. He spoke from his bed in Jerusalem's Hadassah Hospital...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Israeli Girl, Two Arabs Killed in Riot | 4/7/1988 | See Source »

...black girl, got off a bus on Route 9 and disappeared. Four days later the onetime cheerleader was found in a daze, crawling into a garbage bag in the backyard of her family's former apartment complex. Her hair was crudely cropped, her body smeared with dog feces, her chest inscribed in charcoal with the letters KKK and the word NIGGER. At the hospital, a black policeman asked Brawley, "Who did it?" She reached for his badge and scrawled on a piece of paper, "white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hullabaloo on The Hudson | 3/28/1988 | See Source »

...however, continues on his own way as unerringly as Issey Miyake. This new collection is his 31st, but it abounds with so many notions about shape and fabric that it bursts open like a just discovered treasure chest. The waist rises on a short black leather skirt, but the hem falls irregularly. A raincoat is made of polyester that feels and falls like inked paper. One pantsuit in atomic-orange wool knit looks like a drill uniform for fashion insurrectionists. Another pantsuit in silk clings and flares in the jacket, rides the waist, then blossoms out in the cuffs, looking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: When Paris Is Not Burning | 3/28/1988 | See Source »

...your activities in Florida should be getting one of your hearty compatriots intoxicated to the point of complete helplessness while on the beach, and then covering his or her face and chest with various lewd witticisms in sunblock. Party games like this coupled with the requisite amount of beer-guzzling and sun-worshipping, and you will have a dream vacation which will only cost your self respect, $300, and five-eighths of your functional grey matter...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Doctoroff, | Title: A Harvard Guide to Hedonism | 3/23/1988 | See Source »

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