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...father was a bit of a tyrant," Bette recalls. "He would flush the girls' makeup down the toilet. He'd lock my sister Susan out of the house when she came home too late. He taught my younger brother Daniel, who is brain damaged, to read and write by hammering and screaming at him until he got it. Every afternoon. None of us wanted to be in the house. But Daniel did learn, and it's made a big difference in his life. It gave him freedom. My father always thought I was a little odd. He never chose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bette Midler Steals Hollywood | 3/2/1987 | See Source »

...market then began to dipsy-doodle, going through unprecedented one-day drops and climbs, including the worst ever single-day fall on Sept. 11 (86.61 points). The eye-popping volatility of the market was made possible by the steadily increasing computerization that allowed hundreds of millions of dollars to flush through the markets at the push of a button. But for all the action, the Dow managed to spend most of its time in the region of about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bull Tops 2000 | 1/19/1987 | See Source »

...There's a variety of possibilities--what the study is going to do is flush out the costs and benefits to the community and to the developers," said Duehay...

Author: By Gawain Kripke, | Title: Council Still Considering Plans for Linkage in City | 11/18/1986 | See Source »

Workers from Westinghouse and Transformer Systems, Inc. will flush polychlorinated byphenyls (PCB's) from the library's central transformers, which lower the voltage of electrical current that enters the building, said John E. Cady, the assistant manager of Facilities Maintenance...

Author: By Andrew J. Bates, | Title: Hilles Shut For PCB Clean-Up | 11/14/1986 | See Source »

...chopsticks), and John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee fuses bebop and rap: "Go get the lady with the unusual haircut and add her to the stack. Go get Meyer and the boat and bring the boat around. Use the big anchor and the power takeoff winch to pull the Flush out of the mangroves. Cork up the Munequita and rig a pump and float her." The form has also had its share of parodies. The best was S.J. Perelman's Farewell, My Lovely Appetizer: "I shifted my two hundred pounds slightly, lazily set fire to a finger, and watched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Neither Tarnished Nor Afraid | 6/16/1986 | See Source »

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