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...save mom and pop's failing business at the same time. But in 1980's Sydney. Australia, the girl next door is a Toyah-coiffed punkette who's not averse to finding true love in a one-night stand, and the mom and pop business is the HarborView Motel, a working class pub with a vintage Fabulous Fifties interior that squeaks like your grandmother's plastic slipcovers...

Author: By Kathleen I. Kouril, | Title: Punk Fluff With Spikes | 3/4/1983 | See Source »

...after they met in February 1981, urging her to divorce her estranged husband. She said that she realized her "prince had turned into a frog" when he borrowed $1,600 in cash and $40,000 worth of inventory from her clothing shop and then failed to return to a motel where she was waiting with her mother and three children. Another of Vigliotto's wives, Sharon Clark of Angola, Ind., told the jury that she was abandoned barefoot and $49,000 poorer in an Ontario motel three weeks after their June 1981 wedding. But Clark tracked her larcenous Lothario...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Most Eligible | 2/21/1983 | See Source »

...contest's exam was given to nearly 2000 undergraduates in early December. University Treasurer George C. Putnam '49, a grandson of the competition's original sponsor, said yesterday "28 young faculty members holed up in a motel over New Year's weekend" to correct the test...

Author: By Peter R. Eccles, | Title: Harvard Math Team Wins First National Contest in 17 Years | 2/19/1983 | See Source »

...college sophomore's ear became a temporary roach motel last month when one of the monstrous vermin established residence there and had to be evicted by a doctor at St Luke's Hospital...

Author: By Compiled FROM College newspapers, | Title: Hearing Disability | 2/16/1983 | See Source »

...game's result was only the beginning of the coach's headaches. Late last night with the team staying at a Princeton motel he was unsure whether the team would be able to get to Philadelphia for an evening matchup against the Penn Quakers...

Author: By Mike Knobler and John D. Solomon, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSONS | Title: Icemen Win in OT, But Tigers Rout Cagers | 2/12/1983 | See Source »

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