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...Chinese specialties cart. This vendor sold limp, soggy, overfried wontons, eggrolls and vegetable tempura I loved...

Author: By Michael W. Miller, | Title: Sixth Avenue, On the Greasy Side | 3/9/1982 | See Source »

Though Princeton confidently controlled the pace last night, the Tigers performance was but a limp imitation of the masterful slow-down offense that took last year's Ivy crown and eight of the past 20 titles...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: ...But Tigers Hoopsters Take Revenge, 60-50 | 2/27/1982 | See Source »

...said that he received no medical attention, and that he had been gagged and told to raise a finger when he was ready to confess...The man suffered from broken bones that were never set....He was released after a year and a half and walks with a limp...

Author: By Errol T. Louis, | Title: The Plight of the Falashas | 2/27/1982 | See Source »

...through the scene ten times-teasing, glaring, hating, crying, shrieking, allowing the camera to read the subtlest nuances on a face that remarkably resembles Farmer's. Graeme Clifford, Lange's editor on The Postman Always Rings Twice and her director on Frances, shouts "Cut! Print!" Lange goes limp; she has reason to feel exhausted, and pleased...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Morning Comes for Frances | 2/15/1982 | See Source »

...succeeding in persuading many Europeans who ought to know better that the Soviet Union is waging a genuine "peace offensive," while the U.S. has recklessly embarked on a road that could lead to war. Part of the problem is that large segments of the European body politic have gone limp; much public opinion and political leadership too seem to be turning naive or neurotic, or both. The U.S. has not helped by responding with a loud voice and a tin ear. Before President Reagan's widely hailed speech last week, his bellicose anti-Soviet rhetoric and willful insensitivity even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Dilemma of Nuclar Doctrine | 11/30/1981 | See Source »

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