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...when it provided a setting for James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales (in which the lake was called Glimmerglass). In the nearby village is the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Stretching in all directions is rolling farmland, Grant Wood vistas of an America that doesn't crinkle up its nose at the smell of manure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: LOGGERS BY THE LAKE | 8/7/1995 | See Source »

Beau pinches his nose as the three girls in the group, Kathleen, Jenny and Iliana, gather around and make a dot on a slip of paper so the ink can bleed into its base colors...

Author: By Valerie J. Macmillan, | Title: Summer Science Allows Harvard Students, Cambridge Kids to Play With Slime and Sound | 8/4/1995 | See Source »

...optimistic economic prognosis from Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan prompted a bullish stock market to nose-dive. Wednesday's sell-off further weakened a market reeling from announcements of lowered profit expectations by Microsoft Corp. and Intel Corp. The technology-rich NASDAQ composite index sustained a massive 35.66 one-day loss, its largest point-drop since October 1987; it recovered almost 10 points by the close on Friday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WEEK: JULY 16-22 | 7/31/1995 | See Source »

Wylie's 1977 book Beaux Gestes, A Guide to French Body Talk (with Harvard photographer Rick Stafford), shows a bespectacled Wylie biting his thumb, tapping his nose and demonstrating other gestures common to French culture...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: French Scholar Wylie Dies at 85 | 7/28/1995 | See Source »

...attack Serbs if they threaten any remaining safe haven. Clinton, asked today why the Serbs should take the new threat seriously, said: "If the U.N. fails the next time, there will be a different course." But Serb Gen. Ratko Mladic, indicted as a war criminal Wednesday, thumbed his nose at the American lawmakers who would arm the Bosnian Muslims. "If they lift the embargo," he said, "I'll just eventually end up capturing all of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE U.N.'S LAST CHANCE? | 7/27/1995 | See Source »

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