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...wears a diamond stud in one ear, loves to pub-crawl with his hometown "yobbos" (rowdy pals), dotes on heavy-metal rock and has even been known ) to play a lick or two. So it figures that last week Pat Cash would find a most untraditional way to celebrate when he became the first Australian in 16 years to win the men's singles crown at Wimbledon. After routing Ivan Lendl 7-6, 6-2, 7-5, Cash, 22, threw a ball into the crowd and then clambered up the packed grandstand to embrace his father Pat Cash Sr. Remarked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 20, 1987 | 7/20/1987 | See Source »

This denizen of some second-rate hell had been vainly nipping at my heels ever since I weaseled out of researching her pet article on an outbreak of Church Lady copycats in French Lick, Indiana. Avoiding her had become more and more difficult as she gradually sealed off my favorite escape routes and I ran out of relatives who were on their deathbed...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: Brain-Addled Air Junkies | 4/30/1987 | See Source »

...prices of the Japanese companies and concluded that they are dumping, it is not at all certain that they need to resort to such tactics to outsell American competitors. Says Tokyo Economist Kinji Yajima: "No matter what the U.S. Government might do, American semiconductor makers just simply cannot lick their Japanese rivals." Japanese manufacturing costs are known to be very low, particularly for the mass-produced memory chips that make up about 18% of the market, since the Japanese have invested billions of dollars in building modern plants to turn them out in huge quantities. The American chipmakers acknowledge that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fighting The Trade Tilt | 4/6/1987 | See Source »

...Spread your legs and let me lick your [expletive deleted]. I'm hungry for love," read another card, the student paper reported...

Author: By John P. Stanley, | Title: Valentine's Mystery Solved at Princeton | 2/28/1987 | See Source »

Gumbo too thin. Gotsta be thick, like Elmer's Glue. And where de rice? It don' come wid rice? Mon Dieu! Not too spicy, eider. But we add tobasco. Plenty. Some like it hot. Some like it cold. Some like it in dey pot . . . Eh! Octav'! Don' lick deh spoon...

Author: By Daniel Vilmure, | Title: OUT TO LUNCH | 2/26/1987 | See Source »

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