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Occasionally, I receive letters with obscene words and drawings. There are threats, the mildest being a pledge to beat my face in. Our weekly magazine is criticized in a newspaper that from force of habit no one dares argue with: * Pravda. The fear caused by this newspaper is supposed to be so deep and basic that it is ten times greater than other fears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Typing Out the Fear | 4/10/1989 | See Source »

Dominating on the ground and in the air, the Harvard squad (4-0 overall, 3-0 Ivy) kept up its habit of trouncing Ivy League opponents this season, defeating the Elis, 16-4, at Ohiri Field...

Author: By Angela M. Payne, | Title: Laxwomen Remain Undefeated, 16-4 | 4/6/1989 | See Source »

...Both sides, in culturally and systemically different ways, have made a fetish of secrecy over the years, and both sides, in still more different ways, have done themselves great damage by that bad habit," he said...

Author: By Eric S. Solowey, | Title: Bundy Talks of Need For Arms Reduction | 4/4/1989 | See Source »

...over fences to make the catch that saves the day. By those standards Boggs is one of the greatest wonders in the game today, whose level of consistent excellence would be the envy of anyone in any job. The vicissitudes of his private life are as irrelevant as his habit of eating chicken before every game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: A Sacrificial Rite of Spring | 3/27/1989 | See Source »

...daughter Valerie (Heather Tobias, in the movie's only overwrought, misjudged performance) can buy everything but common sense and fills life's emptiness with a riot of ugly possessions. Her son Cyril (Philip Davis) has gone the opposite route. He is a leftover leftist who cannot abandon the habit of Marxist analysis but is unable to believe any longer in its power to effect change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Fable for Postmoderns | 3/20/1989 | See Source »

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