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...sister Lisa, 16, went driving around the Bergenfield area with two companions, Thomas Olton, 18, and Thomas Rizzo, 19. At about 3 a.m., the teenagers stopped at an Amoco station and bought $3 worth of gas for Olton's brown Camaro. They asked if they could take the hose from the station's automobile vacuum cleaner, but the attendant refused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Teen Suicide: Two death pacts shake the country | 3/23/1987 | See Source »

Lampoon: has free access to fire extinguishers and can use them to hose down Crimson editors walking in front of Adams House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Clip and Save: Excerpts From the Upcoming Lampoon-Chaparral Collaboration | 3/5/1987 | See Source »

Carefully bending a taster spoon between my teeth, I snap and catapult it at Nancy. It smacks into the back of her neck and she jerks forward into the spray hose hanging next to the smoosh board. Its handle depresses, drenching her leg with water. "Hose-shot, hose-shot!" I chant, dancing triumphantly out of her reach. The waist high smoosh-hose is a chronic problem for scoopers, whose rushes to the board often leave them looking incontinent. Nancy sends a confetti cloud of powdered Reeses at my head...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: Primal 'Scream | 3/5/1987 | See Source »

...many of the scenes are marred, however, by lackadaisical execution by the spent actors. And a few of the scenes are downright inexplicable. During one interminable aria, Sesto wrestles with a rubber snake, ties himself up with a garden hose, then connects the end of the hose to his arm. The program declares that Sesto is singing that, "The offended serpent never rests until its venom is spilled into the blood of the offender." Rubber hose, rubber snake, poison...nope, it's too subtle, I just...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: On Opera: | 2/19/1987 | See Source »

...continual shower of salt spray are so forceful that both skippers have had serious trouble with their eyes. Conner was forced to consult a Perth specialist. Says ( Murray: "In the early races I was coming in every day with double vision. It's like having a saltwater hose going flat out into your face." Murray and crew now wear sunglasses, which must constantly be cleared of caked salt with squeeze bottles of fresh water. Kookaburra Mainsheet Trimmer Peter Gilmour, known as "Crash" for his aggressive tactics as Murray's starting helmsman, sometimes wears an industrial dust mask to protect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The America's Cup: Auld Mug's Game | 2/9/1987 | See Source »

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