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...best when it's windy," agreed freshman Betsey Robinson, skipper in the "B" division. "I hope it will howl in the nationals," Fogg added...

Author: By Gregory R. Schwartz, | Title: Women Sailors Earn a Berth in Nationals | 5/2/1986 | See Source »

...Base in Denver --are all redundant. But they also happen to be in districts of outspoken Democratic critics of the Pentagon: House Speaker Tip O'Neill of Massachusetts, House Budget Committee Chairman William H. Gray III of Pennsylvania, and Congresswoman Patricia Schroeder of Colorado. Predictably, all three raised a howl. Somehow, Pentagon Spokesman Robert Sims kept a straight face when he declared, "I don't think Secretary Weinberger's decision . . . had anything to do with partisan politics whatsoever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Military: Base Politics | 2/24/1986 | See Source »

Tipper Gore can do something you can't. She can quote the loopy lyrics of a rather recherche song by W.A.S.P.: "I got pictures of naked ladies lying on my bed/ I whiff the smell of a sweet convulsion/ Thoughts are sweating inside my head/ . . . I start to howl in heat/ I . . ." and this next word presents a problem. How to handle propriety and make her point at the same time? Spelling is the answer. She pronounces each of the four letters, then finishes, ". . . like a beast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Rock Is a Four-Letter Word | 9/30/1985 | See Source »

...happens every winter. When the winds howl and the snow drifts, TV screens across the U.S. bloom with images of swaying palms, emerald waters and undulating swimsuits. The islands beckon; come to the Caribbean. Not everyone has the time or money to heed the call, but stay-at-homes this year may console themselves with this collection of nine stories. In his first book, Author Bob Shacochis not only offers some beguiling tropical tours, he also shows how living in Eden can be considerably harder than jetting into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Paradise Lost Easy in the Islands | 2/18/1985 | See Source »

...rejection of conventional lifestyles, and the way the Beats unashamedly took on the role of prophets, that horrified the rest of America. Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the owner of San Francisco's City Lights Bookstore, was arrested in 1957 for distributing Allen Ginsberg's allegedly obscene book Howl, Serlinghetti's account of the trial is included in McDarrah's book, and it gives a good idea of how much alarm the Beats caused in some circles...

Author: By Naomi L. Pierce, | Title: A Beat Collage | 2/12/1985 | See Source »

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