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...thousand moments ago in California, back there in a distant space before the angry pumped up reds-speed-and-Jack-Daniels buzz twisted, writhed and plummeted into the mellow blue-black of sweet Colombian dope and then, groggily, awoke into a bright new day of desert sunshine, cocaine and, lest we forget, as its undeniable, irrepressible tendrils finger their way into our minds, Queen Acid, begging, declaring, forcing us to recognize that the black spot affixed near the apex of the road, the dot at the edge of infinity, has no, not four or 20 but a human two arms...

Author: By Rutger Fury, | Title: On the Road | 11/10/1987 | See Source »

...universal rent control boils down to is the worry that without it, in the words of David E., "low-and moderate-income working people...would not be able to afford to live in Cambridge." Universal rent control is a means of protecting the demographic make-up of Cambridge, lest its middle class move out and leave the city a miniature Manhattan of the wealthy and the poor...

Author: By Stephen L. Ascher, | Title: Tyranny of the Tenant | 11/3/1987 | See Source »

...State Department officials expressed surprise; Interior Minister Manuel Bartlett Diaz and Energy Minister Alfredo del Mazo Gonzalez were considered likelier choices. While Salinas, like De la Madrid, is favorably disposed toward Washington, he is expected to keep his distance lest he offend Mexican sensibilities. "Salinas is hardheaded enough to know that Mexico's future is bound to the U.S. and not to a tiny Third World country in Central America," says a European diplomat based in Mexico City, referring to Nicaragua. "But there has to be a little prickliness in the relationship for it to be right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mexico A Professor's Pupil Makes Good De la Madrid chooses a tough economist | 10/19/1987 | See Source »

...Lest the sub become Tuck's tomb...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: Spacing Out | 7/21/1987 | See Source »

...group decided at the start to confer in total secrecy, with the windows of the Pennsylvania statehouse shut tight and sentries stationed at the doors. When one delegate carelessly dropped a copy of a convention document, Washington began scolding, "I must entreat the gentlemen to be more careful, lest our transactions get into the newspapers and disturb the public repose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Also In This Issue: Jul. 6, 1987 | 7/6/1987 | See Source »

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