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...their 1978 Buick LeSabre, until the police shooed them away. Then they spent some nights in Park Road Park, sneaking in about midnight after the park ranger left and departing by dawn before he returned. They hid blankets and pillows in the bushes and slept on a picnic table under a streetlight, where the mosquitoes weren't so bad. They took showers with a five-gallon water jug and washed up in the bathrooms, one standing guard for the other. Bobby shaved using the car's broken rearview mirror, and they washed clothes in the sink. "There's no reason...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: North Carolina: They're Home for Christmas | 12/30/1991 | See Source »

...when most people see a swarm of bees, they don't know all these things. People are afraid of bees. Any time a flying insect with stripes appears at a picnic, someone will yell "A BEE! A BEE! KILL IT!" They're afraid they might get stung. If one "bee" means one sting, a swarm must means THOUSANDS, right...

Author: By Liam T.A. Ford, | Title: The Bee Lie | 12/14/1991 | See Source »

...Stoll '94 drank apple cider from the Undergraduate Council picnic at last month's game. He doesn't think he'll attend another Yale game for a long, long time...

Author: By Ira E. Stoll, | Title: The Game Was The Pits | 12/2/1991 | See Source »

...personal odyssey through alternative therapies began innocently in the late 1970s at a summer picnic in Canaan, Conn. One of the guests, a New Age true believer, overheard me say I was convinced that coffee was making my hands feel clammy though my doctor had scoffed at the connection. "You're allergic to caffeine, just like my husband," she said, and cheerfully proceeded to predict a succession of problems that would eventually leave me a twitching wreck. O.K., I said, irritated, but how would I stay awake to finish the book I was working on? "Try beer," offered another convert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: My Excellent Alternative Adventure | 11/4/1991 | See Source »

...resent the Crimson's ill-aimed focus on irrelevant details of salient public awareness functions(e.g., the poorly-quoted, off subject remarks made by CommUNITY picnic '90 speaker Reverend Stith), rather than an emphasis on the goals of the events and the productive dialogues which are created...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Is rarely AWARE | 11/2/1991 | See Source »

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