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Over spring break last year, while at home, I ran into an elderly neighbor at the supermarket. He was a big, masculine-sort of guy, a throwback to the pre-Fabio days when bigness and masculinity necessarily went together, and he was exceptionally friendly: he had spent more time playing catch with me while I was growing up than he had watching the Royals on the boob tube...

Author: By Sean D. Wissman, | Title: An Urgent Confession | 1/12/1994 | See Source »

...only to keep the North Koreans from producing nuclear weapons but also to take away any they might have built and hidden. The solutions are neither easy nor obvious. Proposals for U.N. economic sanctions probably would be blocked in the Security Council by China, Korea's next-door neighbor, which considers such pressure unacceptable. Clinton might be tempted to use American military power as a last resort, but air strikes, for example, could trigger another full-scale Korean war, and if the North has a bomb, it is probably hidden. That leaves direct, bilateral diplomacy, the course Washington intends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Game of Nuclear Roulette | 1/10/1994 | See Source »

...within reasonable bonds. Or maybe, God love them, it's that the filmmakers allow one of their leads to be something more than a dreamer, sexually speaking. It helps too that the object of his successful affections is Ann-Margret, all peaches and cream, playing a free-spirited new neighbor. In a movie about old age, the gambit is virtually unprecedented...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Codgers, Shticky and Sticky | 1/10/1994 | See Source »

...seminar participants seated in the hotel's ballroom -- a drab hall in which one suspects no ball has ever been held -- are a few hippie-ish girls, a handful of senior citizens and a long-nailed Whoopi Goldberg look-alike who spots Davis and whispers incredulously to her neighbor, "That's Nixon's daughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dispatches: Happiness the Patti Davis Way | 1/3/1994 | See Source »

March 3, 1989 -- Kelly Ann Tinyes, 13, is bludgeoned to death and mutilated by her neighbor bodybuilder Robert Golub in his parents' home in Valley Stream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Long Island: the Suburban Jungle | 12/20/1993 | See Source »

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