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...Friday night, the night to get high, get drunk and strut. Baby Love's entire wrecking crew is here, sprawled over cars, squatting on the sidewalk, jiving. There is Shistang ("He be cool with dice"), Little Spank, Gugu, Snake Eyes, Shilo, Spider Man, Daddy Rich, Little June, Snatch Pocket Earl and Snootchy Fingers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Brooklyn: A Wolf in $45 Sneakers | 10/12/1981 | See Source »

...puffs a bearded, slightly paunchy fellow in a yellow t-shirt. He reaches the cairn that marks the top, looks around for a few seconds, then squats and pulls a joint out of his pocket. And asks, pleasantly, "Wanna get high...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: High on Life | 10/5/1981 | See Source »

...next play, Cuccia showed he can throw a fine conventional pass as well, hitting flanker Steve Bianucci from the pocket for a 41-yard gain down to the three. Acheson hit paydirt on the next play, but Jim Villanueva missed the PAT, and the Crimson took a 6-0 lead...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Black Knights MX Gridders, 27-13 | 10/3/1981 | See Source »

...attend more movies, and drink more wine than the average Boston radiophile, according to a recently conducted survey by Harvard's student-run radio station. HRB execs hope the results will help them sell more advertising (at $15 per minute). Right now, though, the station is $4500 out of pocket due to the cost of the survey, conducted by the Boston firm of Wallace and Washburn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Keeping Track | 10/1/1981 | See Source »

...writes. No, he does not write about Cortés and Montezuma in every story; in fact, he is not writing about them in the sketch quoted above. There is in fact no subject matter to his pieces. Characters and situations are used the way a hypnotist employs a pocket watch swinging at the end of a chain. It is the hypnosis that is important, not the swing of the watch. A short piece called The Party begins, "I went to a party and corrected a pronunciation. The man whose voice I had adjusted fell back into the kitchen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Green Flies | 9/21/1981 | See Source »

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