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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many performers, however, complain that the enforcement of the current rules by the police is arbitrary. "I have found the Cambridge police to be unworkable," says Hunsberger, who no longer plays his guitar on Cambridge streets. "It's up to the police to enforce the rules and it depends how they feel that day. I don't want to be under their whim...

Author: By Daniel B. Wroblewski, | Title: Popping Strings For Profit | 7/23/1985 | See Source »

...parents to describe my freshman year to you, they would likely tell of the bad times I had. While I admit that I did complain a lot, and that I genuinely wanted to leave for much for the year, for some reason only the fun and funny times come out when I discuss the year...

Author: By Joel A. Getz, | Title: Should I stay or Should I Go? | 7/16/1985 | See Source »

Some also claim that the cicada's peculiar, burning, raspy song, produced by a pair of ribbed membranes at the sides of the male's abdomen, is irritating to predators. That seems fanciful, but perhaps it is true because people are uncommonly cross about cicadas and complain that their song is nerve-racking. In Missouri, these days, it is constant and pervasive. The cicadas have three things to say. One is a steady, insistent, buzzy trill: zs-zs-zs-zs-zs. It is a background to a more varied kee-o-keeeee-o-kee-o that punctuates the steady drone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Missouri: the Cicada's Song | 7/15/1985 | See Source »

...hair spray and makeup until after high school. "When you are a student, you should look like a student," says her mother Hae Sun Yoo. "That is hard to tell children when society contradicts that here." She and her husband have the solution. "When our daughters complain, 'Why can't we do this?' we explain to them they are Korean," says Hae Sun Yoo. But Jennifer is not totally swayed. Says she: "You can have a hairstyle and still have an education...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Caught Between Two Worlds for Children, | 7/8/1985 | See Source »

...arrangements, stepping up passenger, baggage and cargo inspections. After an initial flurry of reservation cancellations, these precautions seemed to calm travelers' fears. Still, the spate of bomb threats in the U.S. and overseas, all false alarms, forced several airliners to delay takeoffs or make emergency landings. Passengers did not complain. "I'd rather spend two hours in line here than end up in the Atlantic Ocean," said David Murley of Toronto as he headed for London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disasters a Case of Global Jitters | 7/8/1985 | See Source »

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