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...plus more dances than you'd find in a teenager's calendar. In February Quartzsite plays host to the largest gem and mineral exhibition in the country. And there's an abundance of flea markets, where a person can buy, among other things, crocheted cowboy hats, petrified dinosaur manure, pet ID tags, Whitt's "hillbilly" billfold and racoon-penis earrings -- all at bargain prices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: Parked in The Middle of Nowhere | 5/22/1989 | See Source »

...fact, it's hard to understand why people are nostalgic for the late 1970s at all. I can't imagine that anyone truly misses disco, leisure suits, white polyester, pop rocks, Shaun Cassidy, mood rings, John Travolta, sideburns, Billy beer, pet rocks, Jim Jones, Starsky and Hutch, macrame, fern bars, Leif Garrett, Dynamite magazine, Craig Morton, Carter Country, Orca the Killer Whale, the Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders, Debby Boone, Pong, the Captain and Tennille, gas lines, or the movie Ice Castles and its execrable theme song...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: Party Over, Out of Time | 5/17/1989 | See Source »

Golden retrievers, dalmations, St. Bernards. Lassie, Spuds Mackenzie, Alex from Stroh's. If I didn't know this was a crew regatta, I'd have thought it was a pet show...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Crowds, Crew, Cookouts and Victory | 5/15/1989 | See Source »

Such a proposal has long been a pet idea of Councillor William H. Walsh, a vocal critic of the city's current rent-control system who has often drawn criticism from Turk for his close ties to the real estate industry...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Council Makes Strange Bedfellows | 5/10/1989 | See Source »

...maintain that there is nothing wrong with a little irrationality now and then, so long as it is kept within certain bounds. Even an occasional show of anger can be a sign of respect, but be sure to pick on someone your own size, or larger. No kicking the pet salamander...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I See, I Want, I Get - Maybe | 5/8/1989 | See Source »

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