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...Fagan-like character, who uses his young Oliveresque son Arlis (played by Jerry Swindall as a child and by Dennis Quaid as an adult) to break into and steal from people's homes. The scheme is this: a family finds a mute, apparently lost child on its doorstep one day, and takes him in. While asleep, the young Arlis creeps downstairs to let his father in, and together, they loot the house, sneaking off into the night...

Author: By Patrick S. Chung, | Title: Little House on the Prairie | 11/11/1993 | See Source »

...describes Dispatch Tech as "friends, who at a moment's notice appear at a show's doorstep and build everything for them...

Author: By Leah F. Pisar, | Title: The Nuts and Bolts of Harvard Theater | 10/23/1993 | See Source »

Until three months ago, "Red" spent his nights in Cambridge homeless shelters and on the front doorstep of the Harvard Cooperative Society...

Author: By Terry H. Lanson, | Title: Vouchers For the Homeless? | 9/27/1993 | See Source »

While the staff can be blamed for some of the confusion, even his closest advisers insist that Clinton is a big part of the problem. "A lot of it can't be laid at anyone's doorstep but his own," said one last week. Democratic Party elders admit to being stunned by Clinton's judgment lately. Having his $200 haircut and allowing a Hollywood producer to work out of a White House office and then intervene on behalf of friends to win White House air-charter business have done serious damage to his public standing. "The best politician the Democratic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Sinking Feeling | 6/7/1993 | See Source »

...didn't blacken, nor the moon turn red, but the world did come to an end, just as their prophet had promised. The End drove up to their doorstep in a tank, spitting gas, fulfilling prophecies. And if anyone wants to harm them, says the Book of Revelation, fire pours from their mouth and consumes their foes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Branch Davidians: Oh, My God, They're Killing Themselves! | 5/3/1993 | See Source »

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