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...book, sometimes in Sanskrit. His road uniform was a dark wash-and-wear suit and a white nylon shirt that he would rinse out and hang up to dry before bedtime. In the morning, one host recalled, Moe would show up for breakfast fully dressed though a bit damp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Now Batting for the Oss... | 8/15/1994 | See Source »

...cold rain, Cornell's running game dominated as the Big Red won, 27-0. It was a whopping loss, a major strike against the Crimson's confidence. But as the team walked away in the rain that day, damp and depressed, there was hope. There was the Game...

Author: By Sean D. Wissman, | Title: THE GAME THAT GOT AWAY | 6/9/1994 | See Source »

...Billy Graham, focused on Nixon's foreign policy achievements, touching only obliquely upon the Watergate scandal. "He achieved greatly, and he suffered deeply," said former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. "But he never gave up." Earlier, an estimated 42,000 visitors had stood for hours in chilly, damp weather to pay their respects to the former President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Week April 24-30 | 5/9/1994 | See Source »

Because when you return, your clothing is no longer tumbling merrily in the washing machine where you left it. It is sitting in a damp, dejected heap on the decidedly unsanitary floor...

Author: By Emily Carrier, | Title: Underground, Students Wage War Over Laundry | 2/26/1994 | See Source »

...into a tumbled heap. But she uses this violent gift in a curiously selective way. At the outset of The Shipping News, she demeans her hero, a blobby, unfocused man named Quoyle, as "a dog dressed in a man's suit for a comic photo," who possesses "a great damp loaf of a body." His faithless wife is "thin, moist, hot . . . in another time, another sex, she would have been a Genghis Khan." After they marry, her "desire reversed to detestation like a rubber glove turned inside out." But as Quoyle heads to Newfoundland and fumbles through life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: True (As in Proulx) Grit Wins | 11/29/1993 | See Source »

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