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...moment, though, Will Hearst's flip line to his grandfather's ghost about not knowing what he is doing draws some uneasy smiles in the newsroom. Seven months after hiring a new editor for the paper, Hearst fired him two weeks ago and named himself to the post. Image, the four-month-old Sunday magazine, is so far ill focused. And the Examiner, perpetual afternoon also- ran to the morning Chronicle (circ. 554,000, vs. 150,000) has failed to gain new readers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: In His Grandfather's Footsteps | 2/3/1986 | See Source »

...Eddie's truck is a masterpiece of mud and birdcrap, like a Jackson Pollack custom-designed Chevy. May's motel room is a working model for entropy, strewn with dirty underwear and rumpled blouses. And Eddie's adolescent home boasts a velvet painting of John F. Kennedy, while the ghost-daughter of May's own past bounces behind her on a motel bed, and hugs her, crying, in the foreground of a rusted swingset...

Author: By Daniel Vilmure, | Title: Don't Be Fooled | 1/8/1986 | See Source »

...Museum, scorning such conventions, has turned its rotunda into a boat show. It is full of small craft of every kind, antic parodies and phantoms of seaside fun, not one of which will float. There is a dory made of concrete and a small runabout, or rather the Platonic ghost of one, made of glass reinforced with wire mesh; a sailing dinghy made of sheet copper; and a trio of bright blue, toylike sailing boats, one of them toppled as by a puff in the bathtub. There are also wooden fences, sheds and nondescript little structures of a vaguely maritime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Fluent, Electric, Charming | 12/30/1985 | See Source »

ABONG FOR McKinney (our green-thumb friend, Larry) Too bad of your scheme Harvard found itself wary. For ghost-ridden common room dwellers a wink, And for all autumn-lovers a pumpkin-filled sink. For upperclass prefects a few good cold showers, And a few common rooms for the Mather gang's towers. An off-campus shelter for each Cabot dweller--And a quick painless end to the noise in the cellar. Some new ideas for the House Committees Who can't hold keg parties in such a strict city, And for all those upholding the laws against drink...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Christmas Hit List | 12/19/1985 | See Source »

...crackpot or anything," said Ellen L. Cox '89, who was not present when the ghost was spotted. "Audris is really level-headed. If she says she saw a ghost, she saw a ghost...

Author: By Mark R. Hoffenberg, | Title: 'I Saw a Ghost in My Common Room' | 11/9/1985 | See Source »

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