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This transformation will occur after you've fought for your clothes, immediately proceeding your entrance into the communal dressing room. (A piece of advice--bureaucratic large stores like the Boston one will only allow six pieces in the dressing room and they will not let you go out for more stuff. If you only have a short time, wear leggings and a tank top under your clothes and change in the aisles. You won't be the only...

Author: By Eleni N. Gage, | Title: A Personal Voyage to Filene's Basement | 3/10/1994 | See Source »

...attributed the causes of youth violence mainly to child-neglect, the lack of gun control and the breakdown of communal and spiritual values...

Author: By Leo H. Cheung, | Title: Edelman Describes 'Disease' of Violence | 2/23/1994 | See Source »

...will have cars when even Lillehammer residents must ride buses or walk, who stay on expense account at the best hotel when ordinary Norwegians are priced out of most housing in Lillehammer and some are camping overnight outdoors, and who consume foods and beverages considerably grander than the communal cafeteria fare of the athletes. Some I.O.C. Pooh- Bahs were so miffed they threatened to leave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Finally, the Olympic Games | 2/21/1994 | See Source »

...Zhirinovsky's Kazakhstan childhood an unrelenting horror. In addition to revisiting the many injustices of poverty ("in school one girl had a ball-point pen and I didn't") and listing the names of boys who beat him up, the author bitterly recalls the misery of life in a communal apartment ("I slept on a trunk"), the lines to the toilet ("it smelled bad") and his first attempt at sexual intercourse. Its consummation was thwarted, he explains, by his failure to successfully remove the bathing suit of one of his female classmates ("the experience impoverished my soul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Farce to Be Reckoned With | 12/27/1993 | See Source »

...made the dean's list three times. But that approximation of bliss collapsed in 1988, when Warren sued for divorce and won custody of their child. By last week, Ferguson was jobless and living in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, in a tiny $175-a-month room with a communal bath down the hall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Colin Ferguson: A Mass Murderer's Journey Toward Madness | 12/20/1993 | See Source »

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