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...compartment is so stuffed with tapes it won't close, and the back seat is littered with the plastic placentas of cassette containers. The bikers and pink-haired punkettes hanging out in front of Tower Records recognize Molly even before she parks, but the mode is cool: a slow nod, a thin smile and distance. In one corner of the store, David Lee Roth, the motor-mouthing rock star, signs autographs, but Molly is too shy to approach him. Instead, she gets down to business, striking surgically at every rack in the store: rock, pop, jazz, country, blues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Well, Hello Molly Ringwald! | 5/26/1986 | See Source »

...creating frost-inhibiting bacteria, and set about producing them by gene- splicing techniques. For meaningful experiments, enough of the bacteria had to be sprayed on test plants to overwhelm the natural variety. But the release into the environment of any genetically engineered microbes in those days required the nod of the National Institutes of Health recombinant-DNA committee,* which in 1983 approved the Berkeley scientists' proposal to conduct their test at a tiny potato patch near the city of Tulelake in Northern California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fighting the Biotech Wars | 4/21/1986 | See Source »

...didn't talk about the games anymore. We didn't even nod to each other confidently. We'd had enough...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: ...It Had Become Pathetic | 4/18/1986 | See Source »

...Crimson: How could you completely dismiss this major story on Monday, and dismiss it with a cursory nod on Tuesday? Were your reporters asleep? Or is it that hypocrisy and injustice like this go on all the time in the council and you simply chose to leave it unreported? Matt Drummy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council | 2/19/1986 | See Source »

Keith Webster (second in scoring with 11.7 ppg) and Captain Pat Smith will likely get the nod at the guard spots for Harvard...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: Cagers Headed for One Devil of a Time | 1/24/1986 | See Source »

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