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...Bowdoin contest has turned into an annual Thanksgiving feast for the racquetwomen...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Upbeat Racquetwomen Plaster Polar Bears, 8-1 | 11/25/1987 | See Source »

More than three centuries ago, the Pilgrims staved off the terrors of the wilderness and gave thanks for a feast...

Author: By Michael A. Levitt, | Title: Agents Predict Heaviest Travel Season Ever | 11/24/1987 | See Source »

...Soviets had a taste of the outside world during the era of detente, it was meager fare compared with the highly seasoned feast the Chinese have come to enjoy. Sidewalk bookstalls in provincial Sichuan now offer readers the autobiography of Archcapitalist Lee Iacocca, selected writings of Sigmund Freud, Harold Robbins' 79 Park Avenue and lavishly illustrated handbooks on how to apply eye makeup. Former students of English gather at twilight by the banks of Chengdu's Jinjiang river to practice their fractured grammar. The flashing sign above the dance floor at Guangzhou's luxury Baiyun Hotel actually reads WELCOME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Communism Two Crossroads of Reform | 11/9/1987 | See Source »

FAMILY Business is a film Freudians should see. Between the burglaries, the mother's alcoholism, the father's temper, and the daughter's incestuous desires for her brother, the film is a psychoanalytic feast...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: Funny Business | 10/2/1987 | See Source »

...longest interrogation any nominee has had to endure since Congress began holding Supreme Court confirmation hearings in 1939, and he handled himself with considerable grace ^ under pressure. On Saturday, the last day of his testimony, Bork talked about how serving on the high court would be an "intellectual feast," and how he wanted to leave a "reputation as a judge who understood constitutional governance." There was one moment, however, when the strain seemed to affect him. After Senator Leahy took the judge to task for never doing pro bono work during his years as an attorney, Republican Gordon Humphrey retorted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Bork Without the Bite | 9/28/1987 | See Source »

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