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Gladys Van Horne, another Martins Ferry native in attendance, suggests that some people around town may be keeping a tight lid on their natural elation. "They're proud, I'm sure -- more than might express it." Hardly anything in the poet's canon has the power to irk or alarm this woman, currently an editor for the Wheeling News-Register. "No, because I know all that happened," she says simply. "We were not intellectuals," Van Horne cautions when quizzed about Wright's near total early obscurity. "We were a coal- mining and a steel-mill town. That's where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Ohio: A Town and the Bard Who Left It | 10/19/1987 | See Source »

...refrigerator, gets hit in the face with an ax. There's a common household accident, huh?"). Leno's P.G.-rated material is witty, accessible and firmly anchored in bedrock middle America. "I'm hopelessly American," he confesses. "If something doesn't come in a Styrofoam box with a lid on it, I'm lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Stand-Up Comedy On a Roll | 8/24/1987 | See Source »

...trading scandal] is a pretty immediate thing right here," said second-year student Scott N. Bruskin. "But there is sort of a lid on it. It hasn't come up in the classroom environment." Bruskin said that his professor for a Management Policy and Practice class ignored students' requests to talk about the Boesky case rather than hold the scheduled case-study discussion...

Author: By Teresa A. Mullin, | Title: Trying to Mix Ethics and Big Bucks | 6/11/1987 | See Source »

...feet long by three wide, in which the laborers locked up their tools at night; and it suggested to me that every man who was hard pushed might get such a one for a dollar, and . . . get into it when it rained and at night, and hook down the lid, and so have freedom in his love, and in his soul be free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Homes for The Homeless | 6/1/1987 | See Source »

...everywhere were "doing it," while those adroit with their hands were apparently "making it." For a full year, Dewitt drove, searching for this priceless commodity, pausing only to read a passage from Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance (no help for a busted crankcase) and maybe pop a lid...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Captain America and Billy Dewitt | 4/30/1987 | See Source »

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