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...rebel; one lewd strand of hair snakes down to his cheek. He's an orphan; his parents, the notorious Alphabet Bomber (Airport, Barber shop, Car wash, Drug store . . .) and spouse, were electrocuted together long before he turned teen. He's Wade Walker, and when the world that has branded him a juvenile delinquent weighs too heavily on his high school hellcat soul, his eye moistens with a single salty tear. So the kids call him Cry-Baby. Says Wade defiantly: "That's Mr. Baby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Teen Tough | 4/23/1990 | See Source »

...When you read the complaint, you'd think Harvard was a widow, an orphan who'd been led down the garden path by Merrill Lynch," Kramer said. "As long as Harvard has access to the information, Merrill Lynch has no responsibility to provide the information. Who has the duty to call the [Securities Exchange Commission] and get that information...

Author: By Gregory B. Kasowski, | Title: Harvard Wins the First Round in Court | 2/24/1990 | See Source »

POLLY (NBC, Nov. 12, 7 p.m. EST). Will a batch of new songs and The Cosby Show's Keshia Knight Pulliam be able to improve on the old Disney film about an orphan with a cheery outlook? Don't be a Pollyanna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Nov. 13, 1989 | 11/13/1989 | See Source »

...orphan bear cub. A big solitary bear. Two hunters in the forest. The animals' point of view...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Call of The Wilderness | 10/30/1989 | See Source »

...candle. They come from three-four- and five-year-olds who fell before a rain of automatic gunfire. In a corner of the room, elephant tails, rancid and maggot infested, lie in a heap. Behind the building, skulls bleach in the sun. And just up a slope, an orphaned elephant greedily nurses on a bottle of formula and suckles at the fingers of its human keeper. Unless led away, an orphan will linger by its fallen mother until it collapses from starvation or thirst. And a mature elephant coming across a carcass, even one streaked with vulture droppings, will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Elephants: Trail of Shame | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

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