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...random looting and rock- throwing melee at the corner of Florence and Normandie, where last spring's violence broke out. Moving swiftly, the cops cordoned off the area and made 60 arrests. To assert control without using clubs, some officers carried newly acquired 37-mm gas guns that shoot foam-rubber bullets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: L.A.'s Open Wounds | 2/8/1993 | See Source »

Mere days, then, after finishing my Slavic 101 final, I found myself alone aboard a chairlift on the side of a cheesy hill in central Massachusetts. Rented skis clung tenuously to the plastic-and-foam boots on my feet...

Author: By Dante E.A. Ramos, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The First Time: Please Be Gentle With Me | 12/15/1992 | See Source »

...first to arrive, aside from those few close friends deemed worthy enough to be honored with the first cups of beer foam, were members of the Varsity (insert your least favorite sport here) Team, who casually finished off half of the first keg and proceeded to scrawl obscure epithets on the walls (see box). Then came the Women From Wellesley, prompting a large proportion of the men in the room to huddle in the corner where, after deciding which guy would make a move on which girl, they remained for the rest of the night...

Author: By Michael E. Balagur, | Title: Endpaper | 11/19/1992 | See Source »

...audience has to walk through it to reach the stage. While some of the art objects are used to satirical effect--Senator Hum poses under Jasper Johns' "Three Flags" for a patriotic-looking photo--others seem intriguing but extraneous. There seems to be little function for a polyurethane foam "Iava" trail that leads from the audience to the side wall of the stage...

Author: By Jendi B. Reiter, | Title: One-Sided Satire Mixes Morality With Absurdity | 6/27/1992 | See Source »

...good guy, he has a horror of appearing pretentious. He's a man who has often spent 300 nights a year on the road, and yet demurs at ordering room service. He jokes that he's not comfortable eating something that doesn't come wrapped in plastic foam. In Las Vegas, at Caesars Palace, where he regularly performs, he and his wife of 11 years, Mavis Nicholson, disagree about whether they are staying in the same room as last time. "Honey, I know it's the same room," he says with a slight whine. "I fixed the toilet last time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jay Leno: Midnight's Mayor | 3/16/1992 | See Source »

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