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GOLDMAN'S justification is even harder to take as the writing often employs a strange mixture of slang and cliche, stream-of-consciousness and narration that strains to mimic on-the-street realism. Goldman was way over his head in trying to reproduce the voices of Black men. "Basketball is...

Author: By John J. Murphy, | Title: Growing Up Black and Poor in Chicago | 10/1/1988 | See Source »

The procedure usually takes less than an hour and requires no stitches. Patients walk out of the hospital with only a Band-Aid over the incision. Recalls Sheila Aronoff, who had the surgery at Allegheny General last year: "I could feel the pain start to leave while I was in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Back Surgery Without Stitches | 9/5/1988 | See Source »

That assessment is light-years from 1970, when, Stankard recalls, a local antiques dealer bought his first glass-flower paperweights for $10. Then he was in the midst of "figuring out the secrets of how to do this -- at first I didn't have the vaguest idea. But as I...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New Jersey: Capturing Nature in Glass | 2/8/1988 | See Source »

Ortega said the narcotic drug referred to in the indictments was cocaine.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Suns' Edwards, 4 Others Named in Drug Charges | 4/18/1987 | See Source »

The backlash drove coke and opium underground. Cocaine was the narcotic of choice among some jazz-band musicians and avant-garde actors and artists, but "decent" Americans steered clear. It was Prohibition, after all, and most Americans in the years after World War I were too busy finding bootleg gin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America's Crusade | 9/15/1986 | See Source »

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