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After sweltering through a succession of torrid, hazy and humid days, thousands of New Yorkers sought relief early last month by heading for the area's public beaches. What many found, to their horror and dismay, was an assault on the eyes, the nose and the stomach. From northern New Jersey to Long Island, incoming tides washed up a nauseating array of waste, including plastic tampon applicators and balls of sewage 2 in. thick. Even more alarming was the drug paraphernalia and medical debris that began to litter the beaches: crack vials, needles and syringes, prescription bottles, stained bandages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Dirty Seas | 8/1/1988 | See Source »

...Omni Coliseum, Zirinsky and Bradley don their battle gear: battery packs around their waists, headsets and microphones. They have spent the evening prowling the floor stalking stories. Bradley agreed to cover the convention only on condition that Zirinsky be his producer. "She's got a good nose for news," he says, "and she's fun to be with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Dynamo on The Floor | 8/1/1988 | See Source »

...called the office nothing more than a "pitcher of warm spit," and said Speaker Sam Rayburn had told him to stay far away from it. If he could not be President, he would stay in the Senate, Johnson had told me with such rage and finality -- his nose an inch from mine -- that I chalked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Democrats The Presidency: Boston-Austin Was an Accident | 7/25/1988 | See Source »

...might guess, Weston n' Ella don't get along too well. Each is tryin't' sell th' ranch from under th' other's nose--Weston t' a tacky nightclub owner named Ellis (Caroline Bicks), Ella t' a slick lawyer who's th' head zombie (Ethan Mintz). This sounds like th' set-up for a farce, n' it would be if everyone wasn't so serious n' aware of th' future about t' crash down on 'em like a watermelon on an anthill...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: Just a Story About Some Cowboys | 7/19/1988 | See Source »

Piaggio's Avanti, while sharing such features as rear-facing engines and nose-mounted wings, has a somewhat less radical design. It is equipped with a standard tail and is built mostly of aluminum. But Piaggio claims it will fly faster and more efficiently than its U.S. competitor. Prices will be roughly comparable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: The Shape of Planes to Come | 6/27/1988 | See Source »

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