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...fact remains: Harvard blew Princetonaway, much to the yelping delight of thenear-capacity crowd at Blodgett...

Author: By Juan Plascencia, | Title: Upset City in the Water at Blodgett | 2/5/1990 | See Source »

There are two things a Highlander likes naked, goes an old Scottish saying, and one of them is malt whisky. Of late, the Kiltie's distilled delight has become an international connoisseur's joy. After several lackluster years, sales of Scotch worldwide (although not in the U.S.) are on the rise, led by the rare, distinctive whiskies known as single malts. The malts constitute only about 3.5% of all Scotch sales, but their dollar-value share of the market is twice that because of their relatively high price tags. Overall, sales have jumped from 1 million cases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Taste Of Thistle | 1/15/1990 | See Source »

JUAN DARIEN. A puppet musical? For adults? Unimaginable, perhaps -- but also spellbinding, in this richly mythic off-Broadway delight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Jan. 8, 1990 | 1/8/1990 | See Source »

...less attractive aspect of the President's new decisiveness is his obsession with secrecy. There is an aura of scary smugness about Bush these days, a schoolboyish delight in saying, as he did to reporters about the Malta summit, "I knew something you didn't." Secrecy obviously is necessary in planning something like a Panama invasion. But Bush and his confidants have on occasion carried it to the point of deliberately misleading Congress and the public -- not to mention ranking members of their own Administration -- as with the supposed ban on high-level political talks with the Chinese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Showing Muscle | 1/1/1990 | See Source »

...Mommy," she shrieks with delight. "He says, if I put it in the mailbox, it will get there...

Author: By Melissa R. Hart, | Title: There is No Snow in Boston | 12/15/1989 | See Source »

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