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...good." His religion keeps him from drugs and vice, though it also holds him rather aloof from his classmates and the studies on the curriculum. She is short and round and talks well in class, pleasing the teacher. There is an endearing self-confidence in how compactly her cocoa-brown roundnesses fill her clot! hes, which today are patched and sequinned jeans, worn pale where she sits, and a ribbed magenta shorty top both lower and higher than it should be. Blue plastic barrettes pull her glistening hair back as straight as it will go; the plump edge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: John Updike's "Terrorist" | 5/27/2006 | See Source »

...house in Feasterville, Pa., just north of Philadelphia. Arrayed on tray-size boards and more than 20 6-ft.-tall racks are some 50,000 living spiders representing dozens of species: sleek, lacquered western black widows, hairy fishing spiders, palm-size Gramostola spatulata from Chile, even a fist-size, cocoa-brown African king baboon tarantula...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Creepy Cellar Of The Merchant Of Venom | 7/31/2000 | See Source »

Inside the officers' cottage set aside for him at the Kaneohe Marine Corps air station, Eisenhower shucked his tan jacket and cocoa-brown hat, changed into pink sports shirt, golf shoes and red baseball cap, and headed for Kaneohe's nine-hole Klipper golf course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Mission Completed | 12/22/1952 | See Source »

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