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...first time it was merely amusing. Cornell led 3-0 in one of the least elegant games of football you'll ever see, and the dog's grab for the orange foam gave the fans one of their few opportunities to cheer an aggressive offensive play. The cheers quickly turned to jeers as a uniformed security officer pursued our hero and retrieved the marker...

Author: By Mike Knobler, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Shaggy Dog Story | 10/11/1983 | See Source »

...lumbering around the Cape of Good Hope, some 75 miles northwest of Cape Town, on its way home with 250,000 tons of Persian Gulf crude oil, when at 1:30 a.m. crewmen discovered a fire near the ship's bridge. The crew attacked the blaze with foam extinguishers, but within minutes the fire was out of control. Said Captain Alfonso Civera: "The whole ship became an inferno...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disasters: The Day the Ocean Caught Fire | 8/22/1983 | See Source »

June 3, 9:22 p.m.--Outside Mather House on Flagg Street, an unknown person set tire to two foam mattresses. With assistance from the Harvard Police department, the Cambridge Fire Department extinguished the flames...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police Blotter | 6/7/1983 | See Source »

Stephen Baron, 27, suffers from a ruptured disc that can cause him excruciating back pain. But Baron, an international management consultant in Washington, D.C., has found a topsy-turvy way to get relief. Four times a week he dons a pair of steel and foam-rubber Gravity Boots that each weigh three pounds and dangles from his heels from a chinning bar for five minutes. Says he: "It's a very restful, relaxing experience that eases the pressure off my lower back for hours. I can even hear my vertebrae clicking while I'm upside down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hang Ten | 5/2/1983 | See Source »

...year-old bisexual vampire involved in a threesome with Susan Sarandon, 36, and David Bowie, 36. With hot designs on toothsome Susan, Deneuve commits the classic faux pas of asking about a blood transfusion. "Not the greatest move on a first date," observes Sarandon. Indeed, but such is the foam that washes ashore in this bit of vampyorrhea that aggressively bills itself as "new wave." Quick, somebody fetch the stake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 4, 1983 | 4/4/1983 | See Source »

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