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...proselytizing. This is no time for converting the heathen. Glazed eyes, a slack jaw and frantic waving to a long lost friend are tell-tale signs of terminal boredom...

Author: By Lorraine Lezama, | Title: Tips for the Socially Challenged | 11/25/1992 | See Source »

Fists of Fury: After a frantic first period, the action died visibly at Bright, until Union's goons livened up the action. At 9:40 of the third period, Simonton rode Harvard junior defender Sean McCann into the boards, as McCann tried to pass to fellow junior Chris Baird. As the puck floated up the ice, Simonton floated his stick and fists into McCann's face...

Author: By Jay K. Varma, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: MEN'S HOCKEY NOTEBOOK | 11/14/1992 | See Source »

...years, a remarkably long time in an industry where employee turnover often reaches 100% a year. She earns only $6.10 an hour. "To work here you need a weak mind and a strong back," she says with a smile. The pace at the Simmons plant is so frantic that chickens sometimes spill onto the floor, where they lie for as long as an hour. "Sometimes there's a real pile-up," says Grover Myers, a federal inspector at the plant since 1959. "I just wish the plant supervisors had their own initiative, without inspectors telling them to pick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arkansas Pecking Order | 10/26/1992 | See Source »

...hugely successful comedian, Crystal is singularly without attitude -- not as angry as Richard Pryor, nor as frantic as Robin Williams, nor as - political as Jay Leno, not alienated or crude or macho. His humor bursts the bubble of ego without destroying anyone's dignity. He doesn't seem to have an enemy in the business, which partly accounts for the success of Comic Relief, his annual TV show with Whoopi Goldberg and Williams, which raises millions of dollars for the homeless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Having Struggled From Warm-Up Act to Headliner: BILLY CRYSTAL | 10/19/1992 | See Source »

...seemed to get frantic every time we touched the ball," Wheaton said. "We gave up the ball way too much...

Author: By Sean D. Wissman, | Title: W. Booters Looking To Break .500 Mark | 10/2/1992 | See Source »

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