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Before its mutilation, the waist-high robotic figure was covered with toys and other objects, the ski-pole skeleton held together by brightly colored telephone wire. Its face was an old cartoon-character lunchbox, its torso a discarded radio, its hands giant ski gloves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Junk Sculpture Decorates Garden St. | 9/29/1984 | See Source »

Sargent has a longtime interest in beautifying the Quad area. He once hung a mobile made of mylar, wrapping paper and yarn from a telephone pole near the Quad on Garden Street...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Junk Sculpture Decorates Garden St. | 9/29/1984 | See Source »

...followed its natural cycle," Sargent noted philosophically. Only the ski-pole skeleton and greedy hands are left

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Junk Sculpture Decorates Garden St. | 9/29/1984 | See Source »

...problems stem not from too liberal candidates, but rather from the Republican leadership's drift toward the right. They say the party's fortunes reached a nadir under the leadership of the likes of Gordon Nelson, whom Sears describes as "not only in right field but beyond the foul pole...

Author: By Michael W. Hirschorn, | Title: Why the Democrats Rule the State | 9/17/1984 | See Source »

...track-and-field events, the Soviet-bloc men outdid their hypothetical Olympic rivals in nine. Power, not speed, was their forte. In the brawny field events-hammer, javelin, discus and shotput-three Soviet athletes and one East German exceeded the winning distances in Los Angeles. In the pole vault, the high-flying Konstantin Volkov of the the U.S.S.R. cleared 19 ft. ¼in., two inches higher than the winning Olympic vault. Five world records were achieved in the pool. "The water is fast here," said one Soviet fan, and 6-ft. 4-in. Sergei Zabolotnov proved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Showcases for the No-Shows | 9/3/1984 | See Source »

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