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...winner will be presented with a razor blade and several cartons of Nair to remove the bristles from his legs before he dons his short robe again...

Author: By Casey J. Lartigue, | Title: Cagers Meet the Holy and the Hellish | 12/15/1987 | See Source »

...crucial buffer against North Korea and the Soviet Union, is an impartial but uneasy spectator. To the Reagan Administration, the question is less who wins than the size of the victory margin. "We can work with anyone," says a State Department official. He fears, though, that a razor- thin win by any of the candidates would leave the new President without a clear mandate and lead to renewed instability...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Korea Heading Down the Homestretch | 12/14/1987 | See Source »

...coaches recognized that numbers can't measure the skill Hall brings to his position. He has speed, razor-sharp reflexes and what Brown Coach Cliff Stevenson calls "one hell of a punt." His long goal kicks trigger the quick Crimson attack...

Author: By Jennnifer M. Frey, | Title: A First-Rate Last Choice | 12/2/1987 | See Source »

Soon after arriving in Evanston, Gephardt leaped from drama to campus politics. Known then as Rich, he wore trousers with razor-sharp creases, was a preciously good speaker and even knew how to pull cub reporters aside at student senate meetings to explain the complicated goings-on. Friends kidded the student-body president about combing his hair down over his forehead in the style of John Kennedy. A college sweetheart recalls that the constant comparisons had an effect on Gephardt. "It was hard to look that much like J.F.K. and not talk of the presidency," she says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign Portrait, Dick Gephardt:Young Man In a Hurry | 11/30/1987 | See Source »

...began to suffer alcoholic blackouts during drinking episodes. I would swim back into consciousness with no recollection of where I had been or what I had done. Once, I came to late at night on a downtown city street with my suit trousers slashed down one side by a razor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Diary of A Drunk | 11/30/1987 | See Source »

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