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...June 1, after a month of closed-circuit viewing on Capitol Hill, the Senate will permit four rip-roaring weeks of legislative action to be televised on c-span, the cable network that already brings the House to some 23 million homes. Then on July 29, the chamber will vote on whether cameras, lights and mikes should become permanent fixtures of "the world's greatest deliberative body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Air: The Senate votes for television | 3/10/1986 | See Source »

...Nobody wants to go against Carmen head-to-head in practice," Coach Pete Roby says, "because they're afraid he'll rip them...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: Harvard's Guard-ian Angels | 2/28/1986 | See Source »

...Crimson showdown is always rip-roaring, and although the Crimson took a lopsided 11-3 decision in Ithaca in December, the fur should fly again tonight...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: Icemen Prepare For Cornell War Tonight | 2/14/1986 | See Source »

...after- school center, where I played Ping-Pong every day, which I loved. Davey Senior was thrown out of his house for something, so he came to live with my mother and me. And then my grandmother moved in too. My grandmother was a rip; she used to beat up all the kids with a broom. Davey and me lived in the same house, but we didn't do nothin'--would you believe it? I was a virgin till I got married. I was a very good girl, raised myself with honor." She holds her fists over her head like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Christmas Story | 12/30/1985 | See Source »

...doorbell rings, and Mallory admits two tall black men delivering a huge brown, metal free-standing closet. They struggle to angle the closet through the darkened hallway to place it in Michael's and Eileen's room. Mallory's plan is to rip out built-in drawers in the hallway, and thus widen it into a dining room. The immediate effect of the alteration is to make Michael's room impossible to enter. Mallory touches his head again. "Smart, right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Christmas Story | 12/30/1985 | See Source »

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