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Eastwood attended eight grammar schools in eight years, an experience that taught him self-reliance and a suspicion of the intentions of strangers. "When you're the new kid in town, you always have to punch it out with the other kids the first day or so before they accept you," he says. If they didn't, Eastwood did not let it trouble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Go Ahead, Make My Career: CLINT EASTWOOD | 4/5/1993 | See Source »

...Gregg shorthand symbols, by which means the artists have filled the canvas with replications of multiple-choice answers from a survey on sexual behavior -- "More than once a week. Once a week. Two-three times a month . . ." Rarely has such a prolonged setup been followed by such a dim punch line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Whitney Biennial: A Fiesta of Whining | 3/22/1993 | See Source »

...same time as the raid on the Jersey City apartment, FBI agents went to an apartment in Brooklyn where Salameh apparently had once lived (its address is on his driver's license). There they found Ibrahim Elgabrowny, a 42-year-old self-employed carpenter, who allegedly tried to punch an investigating agent and was arrested on a charge of obstructing justice. At a court hearing Friday, Judge Owen mysteriously remarked that Elgabrowny might be involved "up to his eyeballs" in the Trade Center bombing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Case of Dumb Luck | 3/15/1993 | See Source »

Those who had been denied--A Harvard men's hockey team waiting to step on a team of smaller stature than it, an offense waiting to punch in the pucks that had been floating through the slot game after game and the hard workers, waiting for all that hard work to produce something more than tears--got their due last night in Bright Hockey Center...

Author: By Jay K. Varma, | Title: Icemen Roll Over Tigers in Game 1, 6-2 | 3/13/1993 | See Source »

...Lighten up. The situation is probably not all that bad. It often seems as if everyone who discusses dating at Harvard is complaining about it. This makes sense. When people gloat, the natural reaction is a desire to punch them. Besides, people pleasurably involved in relationships usually have better things to do than openly analyze their situation...

Author: By Adam D. Taxin, | Title: Whining and Dining Your Date | 2/20/1993 | See Source »

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