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Moreover, the end of the strike settles a potentially sticky mess caused by extremely intelligent fans in Saugus, Mass. These diplomats of America's pastime decided that they would take strike matters into their own hands and overturn neighborhood subcompact cars for as long as the strike went on. They got to four cars on the first night of the strike and vowed nine more each night--one for each missed inning--until baseball returned to Fenway Park...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: Happy Days Are Here Again | 8/9/1985 | See Source »

...bureau in my room, but it wasn't mine. The shoe was black and had at least a six-inch heel. Not knowing that it belonged to one of my roommate's girlfriends, my mom first took a close look at my bed and, noticing that the mess on the matteress held only one inebriated soul, she slowly scowled around the room for that evil being that had corrupted her invaluable son. Not finding anything in the room, she gathered enough courage to open the closet slowly, expecting to find the culprit. Disappointed only to find my laundry...

Author: By Ji H. Min, | Title: A Bed and a Place to Call Home | 7/16/1985 | See Source »

...everything I never put away. It's still that way today. Gravity undresses me; gravity decides where my things wind up. I don't think I've used a hanger in my entire life. I've always enjoyed living in my own debris. These days, I can really mess a place up in about twelve hours. When I was a kid, I was a little bit faster: it took about 30 minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Autobiography of Peter Pan | 7/15/1985 | See Source »

...Such a mess," says Roger Conner, director of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), which advocates stronger restrictions. "We imagine ourselves as responsible for the whole world's problems, but immigration over the next 40 years will mean 50 million more people, and once they get here, they have children." "Our kids can't get jobs because the illegals take them," says Harold Ezell, Western commissioner of the INS. "If we don't control this border, we're going to lose control of this country." Says Conner: "The politicians don't want to talk about what is happening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Changing Face of America: Just Look Down Broadway | 7/8/1985 | See Source »

...show. You sit mesmerized as Ruth soothingly points out, "Normalcy is hard to define," and "There is no one right size for the penis." You get to look down on all the bumpkins who call in wondering whether Ben-Gay makes them sterile. In fact, everything's such a mess out there, it makes your own sex life seem pretty good. Ours is superb, by the way. Best of all, my beloved one, when you listen to Dr. Ruth, you feel a surge of therapeutic uplift that many of us find to be missing from your average porno film...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: The Munchkin of the Bedroom | 7/1/1985 | See Source »

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