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...used to be so simple. Winter meant Charlie Brown getting hit in the back of his smooth, round noggin with a fat snowball. Spring was Charlie Brown losing another battle with the kite-eating tree. By July, he was whiffing in the bottom of the ninth, and every autumn it was back-to-school love with the little red-haired girl...

Author: By Thomas H. Howlett, | Title: Bo, Buns and the Vineyard: Hundreds of Ways to Keep Time | 12/9/1981 | See Source »

...potted hydrangeas at the entrance, saunters beamishly past scores of food outlets, surveys Remembering You, a handsomely stocked gift shop, and peeks in on a shop crammed with antique postcards. He exchanges a few joky words with Anthony Hawkins, the 36-year-old black manager of Harborplace. At the Kite Loft, Rouse pays $1.95 for a "puddle jumper," a wooden propeller on a stick that whirls aloft and settles gently into the harbor. Rouse is pleased to note that on a busy weekday, the pavilion is spotless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: He Digs Downtown | 8/24/1981 | See Source »

...popular with K-School officials, Forman has won the hearts of students and staff. Everyone who sees her at the K-School takes the time to stop and chat: She take issues, but not herself, seriously. Once, when her contemporaries were furiously studying for finals, she bought a kite and flew it on the K-School lawn...

Author: By Jacob M. Schlesinger, | Title: Lori Forman: Taking on the K-School | 6/3/1981 | See Source »

...Fuzzy Zoeller. $54.000. 67-69-68-70--274: 2. Hale Irwin. $32.400. 69-68-71.70--278: 3. (tie) Tom Kite. $15.600. 67.71.71.70--279: Curtis Strange. $15.600. 69-71-67-72&279: Scott Simp...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scoreboard | 5/18/1981 | See Source »

Mayer's script is a farrago of styles, all of them challenging, from the evil magician's bloated Miltonian opening speech to the Scholar Wu's delicate (and suitably alcoholic) Eastern lyricism in a poem called "Kite Fight," which he recites while being whipped. (The scene is stylized and relatively painless, the Scolar Wu seeming to leave his body far behind, the onlookers emitting the sound of the lash.) Our bodies are kites in a kite fight, he says--the kites a long...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Aladdinescence | 3/12/1981 | See Source »

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