Word: packs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sunday was one of those few exceptions, and 25,000 baseball fans had the foresight to recognize it and pack the lawn in front of the library at the Baseball Hall of Fame...
Many children learn the skills of survival at a painfully early age. Today some 23,000 homeless children, compared with an estimated 2,000 a decade ago, roam the streets of Managua. At a busy intersection, a twelve-year-old girl throws a pack of cigarettes through a car window into a driver's lap. As she stuffs a wad of money into her torn blouse she blows a kiss, leans forward and asks, "Do you want to see more...
...Feinstein!" No, this is not a proposed baseball-card swap, but the kind of deal that might occur among children with a religious bent: trading rabbi cards. Since they were introduced last August, more than 400,000 have been sold at 20 cents apiece, or 99 cents for a pack of five. On the back of each 4-in. by 6-in. card, printed in English and Hebrew, are the rabbi's dates of birth and death, the books he published and details about his life...
Back in Brooklyn, Lee is at home. When he was honored last month by the Black Filmmaker Foundation, Lee pledged allegiance to his home borough and teasingly swore never to join Hollywood's "black pack," whose members include Eddie Murphy and director Robert Townsend. Lee's next picture, the story of a jazz musician who must balance his career and love life, will also be shot in Brooklyn and Manhattan. Hollywood holds little allure for the man who rides around on a twelve-speed Peugeot bicycle (he doesn't have a driver's license) and considers a relaxing evening "going...
...ship glides along at 13 m.p.h. during the day and ties up at night, so that passengers may eat and sleep in peace without missing any of the scenery. Guests are well advised to pack carefully: shoes with nonslip soles, much film, a copy of Madame Bovary, binoculars and five fewer pounds than their ideal weight. This is, after all, the province of dense cheeses, Calvados, orchards and plump, happy cows munching the grassy slopes and thinking buttery thoughts...