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...Henry Purcell. All in all, many Britons agreed with Independent Television News' Jon Snow, who declared, "The campaign has become Americanized." Labor put on a strong show by adopting staged events, photo opportunities and other techniques refined by Thatcher four years ago. Last week, for example, Kinnock swung a cricket bat, signed a shovel at a muddy construction site and carried a six-year-old girl on his shoulders. For her part, Thatcher viewed an antique-doll collection, climbed aboard an amusement-park ride and sipped a beer at a Scottish brewery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain Headed for the Finish Line | 6/15/1987 | See Source »

Macintosh afficionados might also want to try Cricket Software's Cricket Graph. Similar to Chart in Concept, Cricket Graph also lets you sort and perform many mathematical manipulations. Especially useful is Cricket Graph's ability to fit regression lines to scatter-plot data. Of course, the cute name is also a plus...

Author: By Evan O. Grossman, | Title: I'd Rather Be Graphing | 3/26/1987 | See Source »

Music bellowed and posters screamed..... 'Maria Pulls It Off! 'The Sickening Galactic Evil of Gargoyle the Globekiller--your guts will run and your flesh will crawl!... On monitors in the window, men boxed and played cricket, barbarians slaughtered hordes of demon invaders, outer space warriors zapped each other in fountains of gore, a caveman swung across what looked like a missile silo towards a control room in which a mad masked axeman made ready to hack up a screaming pubescent girl, and women wanked ferociously in a variety of imaginative positions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BRAIN LINT: | 3/11/1987 | See Source »

...countries turned to trade and games. Pakistan sounded out India about the possibility of importing three elephants to replenish its dwindling supply of five, all living in zoos. In addition, India agreed that Pakistan President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq would visit in February to attend an India-Pakistan cricket match...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diplomacy: New Elephants Instead of War | 2/16/1987 | See Source »

...section in the under-the-tree collection rests on the need to . . . baby it. Toys marketed for boys still hold the high-tech edge. In the girls' department, the wildly popular My Little Pony is a product line featuring simple anthropomorphic equines made to be fussed over, just as Cricket and Baby Talk are dolls meant to be cared for, changed and charged up with generous quantities of batteries to operate their voices and make their faces move. Baby Talk comes up with provocative dialogue like "I love you" and "Turn me over" (lines certain to elicit a lively first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: O.K., Santa, Make My Day | 12/22/1986 | See Source »

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