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...darkness has two colors: purple and gray. They float toward each other like ghosts in the hallway of Mallory's basement apartment. The darkness is absolute. Not even the walls are visible, until the door to the kitchen is pushed open and the apartment is cast in a cold silver, late afternoon light admitted through a single kitchen window. Three chairs surround a formica $ table standing flush against a wall. The seats of the chairs are torn open, exposing a brown stuffing. Beside one of the kitchen chairs a gas pipe juts straight up three feet where an oven used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Christmas Story | 12/30/1985 | See Source »

...doorbell rings, and Mallory admits two tall black men delivering a huge brown, metal free-standing closet. They struggle to angle the closet through the darkened hallway to place it in Michael's and Eileen's room. Mallory's plan is to rip out built-in drawers in the hallway, and thus widen it into a dining room. The immediate effect of the alteration is to make Michael's room impossible to enter. Mallory touches his head again. "Smart, right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Christmas Story | 12/30/1985 | See Source »

Some of the enforcement of the drinking age appears extreme. One off-campus student relates that a friend of legal drinking age was carded four times in one night. "He was carded at the liquor store, then entering the off-campus housing, then in his hallway and finally when he was disposing of the empties," says Kathy R. Bennett junior at Boston College...

Author: By Kim A Vila, | Title: Where's the Party? | 11/16/1985 | See Source »

...visitors in our room" and the group "looked like people from another dorm," but then "they started to get rambunctious" and sprayed the second floor with the fire extinguisher, said Charles W. Rauseo '89, a Thayer resident who was in the hallway at the time...

Author: By Kenneth A. Gerber, | Title: Thugs Invade Thayer Hall | 10/29/1985 | See Source »

...frozen frames, and they give Weintraub's chronicle the sense of a long documentary film, traversing forgotten years and miles. On the surface, all is anecdote and diversion. But there is a hollowness to the cheers and the martial music. Weintraub follows an English schoolgirl running happily down a hallway, only to find a teacher weeping in her classroom. She had been widowed by the war. A bitter German slogan is brought back from the front: "Wir siegen uns zu Tode" (We'll conquer until we're all dead). And Gertrude Stein addresses a wounded French soldier: "Well, here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Haunted Peace a Stillness Heard Round the World | 9/23/1985 | See Source »

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