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...hour. "I'm so gone, it's like after sex," he says. "All I have the strength to do is smile." When he gets home, he can't lift his arms above his shoulders to wash his hair; he can only down ten to 12 ounces of chicken and crawl into...

Author: By William E. Mckibban, | Title: Self-Improvement | 7/14/1981 | See Source »

...easily to another on silken threads they secrete. Their vagabond life accounts for the name gypsy. Millions can infest a small wooded patch. As they crunch, dropping excrement and half-eaten leaves, they sound like steady rain. Some homeowners complain that the noise actually keeps them awake. The caterpillars crawl up walls, spread over driveways, drop into plates and glasses at backyard barbecues. Last month Massachusetts officials got a call from a badly flustered woman. So many caterpillars had swarmed across her front door, she said, that she could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Munch Gypsy, Crunch Gypsy | 7/13/1981 | See Source »

...when Adelphi steamrolled out to a 7-2 lead in the first period, it seemed as though Harvard would crawl away from the 1981 season with its tail between its legs...

Author: By Charles W. Slack, | Title: Norm Forbush, Laxmen Nail Adelphi In Come-From-Behind 19-18 Victory | 5/11/1981 | See Source »

...Everything is enormously outsize. At their thickest point the interior of the wings is 11 ft. high. A big man can walk out easily inside the wings to inspect the eight 28-cylinder Pratt & Whitney engines, the largest radial engines ever built. For that matter, it is possible to crawl up inside the rudder structure for 20 ft. or so. There is no crack or corrosion anywhere. The plane could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In California: The Goose Lives! | 4/27/1981 | See Source »

...this is a bilingual performance--and if some scheme is being followed to determine when the singers switch from English to German, it's a well-kept secret. Perhaps they were flipping coins. By the middle of the second act, the show's pace has slowed to a crawl, the scene changes are lengthy, and the production which began in an explosion of striking images and ideas subsides into formless chaos...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Singspiel in the Subway | 4/20/1981 | See Source »

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