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...Easy Living Laundromat has a sign out front that says, THANKS FOR COMING, but there are no people. Windows are unbroken, and a few have curtains, neatly sashed back. There are some cars, a bird feeder made from a plastic Seven-Up bottle, a hammock tied from an elm to a sycamore, a riding mower with a Six Flags sticker on it, and FOR SALE signs all over the place. Pinned up on one front door is a printed passage from Psalms: "This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Living, Dangerously, with Toxic Wastes | 10/14/1985 | See Source »

...unprepared for a bleak and jarring denouement. Better realized is a future segment starring Comedian Robert Klein as a man who is plunged into a world where words have inexplicably changed their meaning. It is a nifty premise, directed in lucid, economical style by Wes Craven (A Nightmare on Elm Street). The episode is a little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Old Habits, New Formats | 9/23/1985 | See Source »

...impression that the front runner was so sure of success that he could let his minions mop up while he moved on to the next event. Hart, meanwhile, was shaking every New Hampshire hand in sight. On Monday he drew such a huge entourage of television crews on Elm Street, the main drag of Manchester, that pedestrians were forced to cross the street to avoid the crush. Earlier, in Concord, he drew hundreds of enthusiastic supporters to an outdoor rally in Eagle Square Mall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Acting Ornery in New Hampshire | 3/12/1984 | See Source »

...take a pleasure in spring, and other seasonal changes? To put it more precisely, is it politically reprehensible, while we are all groaning under the shackles of the capitalist system, to point out that life is frequently more worth living because of a blackbird's song, a yellow elm tree in October, or some other natural phenomenon which does not cost money and does not have what the editors of the left-wing newspapers call a class angle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Quotable Orwell | 11/28/1983 | See Source »

...four o'clock in the morning--so quiet you can hear the traffic signals turn, so quiet you can hear the street lights buzz. And if you listen very carefully, you can feel the vibrations of the Yale University Police force's patrol car, as it inches down Elm Street...

Author: By Thomas J.meyer, | Title: The New Haven Nine | 11/16/1983 | See Source »

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