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...mind, indeed. The quavering romantic nature flops like a landed fish but never expires entirely, our middle-aged boy discovers. Debts pound at the door like crazy firemen; responsibilities rise like dunes on the Cape; girls in their 20s call him Sir (Oh, call me Captain); and still our hero hopes. Will love come to Captain Midlife? Has it been there all along? Stay tuned as the insomniac, not-yet-ancient mariner rests his head on the railing at a Knicks-Bulls game in which he is Air-Jordaning three feet over the rim | one moment and the next eloping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Captain Midlife Sends a Valentine | 2/15/1988 | See Source »

...when they disembarked was milk. Half the earth's races huddled together in picturesque, cheek-by-jowl harmony. The subways, "awful and astonishing in about equal measure," cost only a nickel to ride. Grover Whalen, a flamboyant Irishman with a flower in his lapel, was glad-handing the visiting firemen as the city's official greeter, while saturnine Robert Moses, the master builder, was sundering neighborhoods in the name of progress. The cafe-society swells watered at El Morocco or the Stork Club, and the punters headed for Toots Shor's, mindful of the proprietor's dictum that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wonderful Town MANHATTAN '45 | 4/20/1987 | See Source »

Despite his ten years in the Boston Fire Department, Robert Jackson has not been promoted to the rank of officer merely because he is gay, the firefighter claimed. Jackson also said he is not allowed to eat with other firemen in the department because of his homosexuality...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boston Police Face Allegations of Discrimination | 4/14/1987 | See Source »

...alarm fire was reported at 10:40 p.m. Firemen found a burning sofa bed in the elevator lobby of the ninth floor. Marcelin was discovered unconscious in an elevator, which had become stuck at the scene of the fire...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Heat Overcomes Woman Stuck in Stalled Elevator | 3/3/1987 | See Source »

Operating on a shoe-string budget, and keeping one step ahead of firemen who would have closed the theater as a fire-trap, the Poet's Theater became the stopping point for numerous literary luminaries, Hunt told the overflowing crowd...

Author: By Noam S. Cohen, | Title: Poets, Actors Reminisce On Experimental Theater | 10/30/1986 | See Source »

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