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...Crimson had headed South hoping to give TCU a fight, and then perhaps knock off a couple of top teams at the Blue-Gray Classic...

Author: By Ishani Maitra, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Netmen Fall Short on Spring Trip | 4/2/1992 | See Source »

...maternal pounds around the hips. Before the couple's enforced separations, then separations by choice: Fergie's impulsive flyaways to Alpine ski slopes and Mediterranean beaches, parties with dubious friends and displays of desperate merriment. Before Andrew began to slam her pals as "poncey philistines," and she to knock his sometimes boorish behavior as "terribly gauche...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain The Not So Merry Wife of Windsor | 3/30/1992 | See Source »

Here it is, almost a quarter-century later, and Garth Brooks, 30, is still the star of Funny Night, a family ritual from his childhood in Yukon (pop. 21,400), the Oklahoma City suburb where young Troyal Garth Brooks would knock himself out trying to outshine his sister and four brothers. Only difference now is that the venue's gotten bigger, and the stakes higher. Dramatically higher. Today this guy with the excess longitude under the chin is the new face of pop music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Garth Brooks: Friends In Low Places | 3/30/1992 | See Source »

...ceremonial stroll. Plenty of Democrats fear his campaign may be doomed when he squares off against Bush, and the fat lady is no fool. Even as he pummeled his opponents at the polls, Clinton has been dogged by questions of electability. In the fall, as Republicans go knock, knock, knocking on Clinton's closet door in search of another lady in red, those questions will return with a vengeance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Politics Sweet Smell of Success | 3/30/1992 | See Source »

...After they knock him around? I mean, you described "jumping in," the brutal gang initiation rites where they beat up the new kid before accepting him as a member...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LEON BING: In The Brutal World of L.A.'s Toughest Gangs | 3/16/1992 | See Source »

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