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...produce an appropriate symbol for a TIME project, Holmes tries to mesh the emblem with the major illustrations of the layout. One of his favorites was a drawing of a finger poised over a red button, which was used in a 1982 cover story about fears of nuclear war. The impact was enhanced by a large facing photograph of a mushroom cloud. "It is often helpful to get a play between two things," says Holmes. "When TIME did a September 1983 cover on the downed Korean airliner, we used the Communist hammer-and-sickle symbol, with the plane...
...waitress, telling her there is salt in the sugar he put in his coffee. She is pale, thin, young, has dark circles under her eyes. The truckers have been teasing her, and she doesn't trust them. She dabs a bit of sugar from the canister on a finger and tastes it. Salt. She samples sugar from the other canisters. They have salt too, and she gathers them up to replace them. Someone is hazing her, breaking her into her new job. Her eyes shine with tears...
...father's favorite. I knew how to wrap him around my finger. I knew there was another way to go besides saying, "No, I'm not going to do it," and I employed those techniques. I was a very good student. I got all A's. My father rewarded us for good grades. He gave us quarters and 50 cents for every A we got. I was really competitive, and my brothers and sisters hated me for it. I made the most money off of every report card...
...this ain't All Well's That Ends Well; after every ones' hearts are tied for eternity, the fickle finger of dramatic fate (offstage) pushes the King of France off the ledge of mortality. Since the royal good time girl must needs become a regal career women, it's Cupid who gets the shaft; as No. 1 Courtier Berowne (Gregory Welch) exclaims woefully, "our wooing doth not end like an old play, Jack hath not Jill...
...Tigers this year--McNamara, the Crimson home run leader (5), hadn't earned a starting spot when Harvard played Princeton earlier this year, and Vierra hadn't yet moved from left field to third base. Another change in the Harvard lineup occurred when second baseman Bob Kay broke his finger against Columbia. T.J. Andre has taken over and has seven steals in as many attempts Kay might be able to return if Harvard makes it to the regional Yale Field. Just across the street from the Yale Bowl, is the nicest stadium in the league, and many Harvard students plan...