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...loated around the streets sometimes, leaned against a store front with my hat pushed back and one boot hooked back around the other--hell, you've probably seen me if you've ever been out this way--I've stood like that, looking nice and friendly and stupid, like I wouldn't piss if my pants were on fire. And all the time I'm laughing myself sick inside. Just watching the people...

Author: By Paull E. Hejinian, | Title: A Deputy Gone Mad | 10/27/1986 | See Source »

...rate. For most of the people there, "oldies dance music" means Mowtown, and most of the moves I saw were circa "Saturday Night Fever" instead of "Stomping at the Savoy," which didn't quite cut it. But even if you knew what to do, Lester Lanvine and his Hat Throwing Orchestra changed songs every three minutes, and they played the same damn songs over and over. By the ninth rendition of "When the Saints Go Marchin' In," I was ready to transfer to Yale...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: Dazed and Confused | 10/14/1986 | See Source »

Should it be a crime for her to smoke cigarettes? Should she leave the room if others do? What about drinking beer or diet soda or catching a cold because she callously decided to go outdoors without a hat...

Author: By John Ross, | Title: Pregnancy and Privacy | 10/14/1986 | See Source »

...late afternoon of the next day when Andrei suddenly appeared in the doorway, in his fur hat and jacket, which seemed too big for him. A very thin, small face, all gray. He did not even kiss me, but said, "What's happening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At War with the KGB | 10/13/1986 | See Source »

...formal program, including a concert by the Atlanta Symphony, launched the nation's eighth repository of presidential papers. Much of Carter's energy since he left the White House has gone into planning the center, raising money to fund it ("humiliating," he complained) and donning a hard hat to oversee the construction with his characteristic attention to detail. The 130,000-sq.- ft. interior houses a library of some 27 million presidential documents, a museum whose exhibits include electronic quizzes that let visitors play at making policy, and quarters for a think tank that, under the aegis of Emory University...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbal Bouquets: Grace notes at the Carter Center | 10/13/1986 | See Source »

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