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...short, twisting, violent races. Racers wearing heavily padded gloves and shin protectors charge straight at hinged flag gates and bash them aside. Schneider took a slim lead after the first run but fretted that she had been too passive. She is a country mouse from the tiny village of Elm, who at 13 quit school and competitive skiing to keep house after her mother died. She lists her hobby as knitting. Now she psyched herself into a fury, slugged gates like a boxer on her second run and won her second gold, ahead of Yugoslavia's Mateja Svet. Only four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: Champagne Runs | 3/7/1988 | See Source »

Cohen: Obviously, Universal, like every movie studio, wants everything. We know that the target audience is obviously from the Wes Craven crowd. That is the most certain way we're going to pull an audience in. Everyone that loved Nightmare on Elm Street 1, 2, and 3 will say, "OK, I want a really good scary movie. I want my girlfriend to grab my arm," and the whole thing. We are hoping that through the reviews and by talking with journalists and us going on the road, we can begin communicate that there are other levels to this movie that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Tomb With a View | 2/5/1988 | See Source »

...some ways, writing a thesis is like a continual series of bad dreams from which you wake up, only to find yourself in another nightmare. I am trapped like a character in Nightmare on Elm Street, and my thesis is like Freddy Krueger, chasing me through my dreams. That's why I call my thesis Freddy...

Author: By Matthew H. Joseph, | Title: Nightmare on Thesis Street | 1/27/1988 | See Source »

...first outdoor tests of ice-minus, a bacterium genetically altered to retard frost formation on leaves. Only four months later, Montana State University Professor Gary Strobel created a national outcry when it became known that he had flouted strict federal regulations by failing to get approval before injecting elm trees with bacteria designed to combat Dutch elm disease. This week Clemson University scientists, mindful of public fears about the escape of dangerous microbes, will begin a potentially revolutionary, 18-month test of special blue bacteria that have been modified so that researchers can readily detect their presence in the environment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Importance of Being Blue | 11/9/1987 | See Source »

...Lambert St. Community Room, 663 Cambridge St. Entry 1 3 Truman Apartments 25 Eighth St., Community Room, Thorndike St. Entry 1 4 Harrington School, Cambridge St. 1 5 Harrington School, Willow St. 2 1 St. Mary's Lower Church, Harvard and Norfolk Sts. 2 2 Fletcher School, 89 Elm St. (East) 2 3 Maynard School, Broadway and Windsor St. 2 4 Health Center, 105 Windsor St. 2 5 Fire House, Lafayette Square (Mass. Ave. and Main St.) 3 1 Baptist Church, Hampshire and Norfolk Sts. 3 2 Fire House, Inman Square 3 3 City Hall Annex, Broadway and Inman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Where to Vote | 11/2/1987 | See Source »

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