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...owner of Arsenic and Old Lace, Sherry Gamble, said her store tries to distinguish itself from other used clothing outlets by carrying mostly black clothes ranging from the "uniquely unusual to the morbidly macabre...

Author: By Mary F. Cliff, | Title: 'Costumes to Bands and Coats to Professors' | 11/16/1982 | See Source »

Watching the pair during a game, there's not much to distinguish them by. Both are typical Crimson starters--under six feet tall and only a little more than 150 lbs., darting past bigger opponents in a game in which sheer size and strength count for a lot. Both have been instrumental in Harvard's rise to the second spot in New England, behind archrival Brown...

Author: By Jim Silver, | Title: Rich Guerra and Dave Fasi | 11/16/1982 | See Source »

...SITUATION involving a guilty-but-mentally-ill verdict, the jury would make a two-step determination. First, under the existing standard of ability to distinguish right from wrong, the jurors would decide if the defendant was legally sane at the time he committed the offense for which he is on trial. Only if the jury finds the defendant legally sane can it consider the second question of whether some mental deficiency short of insanity played a role in the commission of the crime. Because the jury uses the current insanity test, any defendant found not guilty by reason of insanity...

Author: By Allen S. Weiner, | Title: An Insane Verdict | 11/15/1982 | See Source »

...crowd allow some indiscretions which permit even a Z-bird to question the guide's true cool. The adulation bestowed on the Hostess Chocolate Cupcake unwittingly seemed to prove the book's premise: "In a world of ever-encroaching uncool, it has become harder and harder to distinguish the real thing." Salutes to Blondie and the B-52s don't seem quite right for full-fledged hipsters and flipsters. Neither does the image of skinny-tied dudes with Elvis' haircuts watching "Flamingo Road," one of the members of the all-time TV list...

Author: By Thomas H. Howlett, | Title: Not Cool | 11/15/1982 | See Source »

...voters of Martin County, Ind., were understandably confused. The sheriffs race pitted Democrat David Qualkenbush against Republican Fred Qualkenbush, no relation. Striving to distinguish themselves from each other, the candidates plastered photographs everywhere. "Fred is fuller in the face," said his aide. Even so, some perplexed voters switched back and forth so often that their erasures wore holes in their ballots. Others voted for both. In the end, the mostly Democratic county chose up sides by party and made David the new Sheriff Qualkenbush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Political Notes: David? Fred? David | 11/15/1982 | See Source »

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