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...must be a Bears fan because he has painted his face and bare torso blue and orange. The second one isn't quite as introverted as the first, and the third isn't quite the button-down conformist the other two are. Mr. Big is carrying an old milk crate. What's inside must be heavy, because it looks like it's about to pull his arms out of their sockets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GREAT SIMOLEON CAPER | 3/1/1995 | See Source »

...fooled by its location. Just becauseit's on a boat doesn't make the museuminteresting. For $4.80 (the student rate) you canlearn everything you've always wanted to knowabout the pre-Revolutionary War tea trade. Plusyou get to throw a "crate of tea" overboard intothe harbor. Caution: don't touch the water...

Author: By Brian E. Malone, | Title: Worst of Boston 1995 | 2/9/1995 | See Source »

...break it," he said. With both movies on hold, he returned to the main menu -- a revolving carousel offering shopping, games, sports, news, movies. He entered a computer-generated shopping mall, complete with a white stucco Crate & Barrel store and the curved glass facade of Sharper Image. He visited a Post Office shop that offered next-day stamp delivery and three-hour package pickup. He popped into the Warner Bros. Studio Store, where he ordered a pair of $10 raspberry-colored baseball caps. He visited the video-game area and played interactive gin rummy with the Willards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ready for Prime Time? | 12/26/1994 | See Source »

...share one refrigerator crate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: First the Cardigan, Now This | 7/18/1994 | See Source »

...Nixon went before a TV audience estimated at 58 million with an impassioned defense of his honesty. "Pat and I have the satisfaction that every dime we've got is honestly ours," he said. The only personal present he had received was "a little cocker spaniel dog in a crate. Black-and-white spotted. And our little girl -- Tricia, the six-year-old -- named it Checkers. And you know, the kids love that dog." Hundreds of thousands of listeners cabled or wrote their support of Nixon, and Eisenhower settled his future by saying publicly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Richard Nixon: I Have Never Been a Quitter | 5/2/1994 | See Source »

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