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...bewildering array of possible shots -- the simple roquet (a straightforward hit), the croquet (a split shot) and others, like the bisque, the take-off, pass roll, cut rush and cannon, that are too intricate to describe -- must be calculated a dozen moves in advance if a player is to peg out for a finish against a single stake in the center of the lawn. It helps to have a sadistic streak since it is as important to hamper an opponent with a difficult "leave" as it is to advance one's own game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Windsor, California Such Splendor On the Grass | 7/16/1990 | See Source »

...home sweet hell." It's Al Bundy of Married . . . With Children arriving at his doorstep, which in fact does resemble the gates to Dante's Inferno. Conversation in the Bundy family is a torrent of verbal abuse. "This is a home, not a restaurant," insists Al's wife Peg, after he demands his supper. "I know," he snaps. "If it was a restaurant, we'd have a clean bathroom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Home Is Where The Venom Is | 4/16/1990 | See Source »

...while there seems to be general approval of Cabot's term in office among members of the Harvard community, outside observers have tried to peg the recent announcement of Cabot's resignation to Harvard's hopes for redirecting...

Author: By Gregory B. Kasowski, | Title: Running the Endowment at an Arm's Length | 2/14/1990 | See Source »

...Boston press noted on various occasions, the Stuarts and their tragedy became symbols -- of inhumanity, of drug-related crime, of racial animosity. They also became an easy peg for a recurrent moral tale pitting good against evil that is guaranteed to generate tears, confirm stereotypes and, most important, get readers to turn the page. Such allegories are generally passed off as a search for deeper meaning or an attempt to humanize the injured party. Yet the images are so shopworn and predictable that they in fact dehumanize. And the ostensible larger meaning is patently obvious: here lies another life that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Turning Victims into Saints | 1/22/1990 | See Source »

Many men from the University said they were disappointed that the pro-choice movement continues to peg the issue as a women's issue only...

Author: By Madhavi Sunder, | Title: Pro-Choice Mobilization: Signs of the Times | 11/16/1989 | See Source »

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