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...greenhouse cost $10,000, but Doug figures that he has saved that much, easy. "Some people say you have to be a little crazy to build a house in New England without a furnace, but once you make that leap of faith, you need no blower, no ducts, no radiators. You start 5000 dollars ahead...

Author: By William H. Bachman, | Title: Sun Worshippers | 5/13/1992 | See Source »

...shot, outran Arazi the French wonder horse and the rest of a field of 16 in a dogged stretch run to take the classic at Churchill Downs. Arazi folded after a spurt coming out of the backstretch and finished eighth, ending the myth that he represented a quantum leap in horseflesh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Finish Line | 5/11/1992 | See Source »

...probably will not leap in and make changesimmediately without spending some time and gettingto know the place," said Jewett. "She has noready-made agenda to make overnight changes...

Author: By D. RICHARD De silva, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Nathans to Be Frosh Dean | 4/24/1992 | See Source »

Basically, Live is four fresh-faced guys up there on stage, blasting music wholeheartedly to their peers. They leap before they look, with a combination of intensity and vulnerabity that sends your mind reeling back to the high drama of teen angst. When Kowalcyzk sings, "Talk to me, talk to me now/Hey man you're all that I have," it's an indescribably seductive appeal to the crowd. In the middle of Live's hit single, "Operation Spirit," Kowalcyzk exhorts the audience to join in, "C'mon, you're all young. You don't have that many opinions yet! Feel...

Author: By J.c. Herz, | Title: Live and Direct: Live Comes Through Loud and Clear on MTV's 120 Minutes Tour | 4/23/1992 | See Source »

...measure of sadness suffuses these records. But there is also an urgent hope, a rush of spirit, a Leap of Faith, in which Springsteen combines sexual and sacramental imagery in a great erotic epiphany. And there is a new kind of sorcery too. Springsteen ends Lucky Town with the eerie spirituality of My Beautiful Reward, which is a unique combination of a Van Morrison religious song and a Native American peyote dream. It's a step into the mystic, a new direction. Springsteen's reborn and running again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reborn, And Running Again | 4/6/1992 | See Source »

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