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...Byrd could not resist scoffing at his Republican colleagues for bewailing the huge deficits after they had pushed through Reagan's program of tax cuts last year. "When you buy bologna at the supermarket," said Byrd, "you shouldn't expect to get home and find roast beef...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Challenging the Red Sea | 2/22/1982 | See Source »

Long-term planning also contributed to the herculean feat, said Turtel, who gorged himself with tasty roast beet sandwiches at lunch Thursday in the Leverett House dining hall. "Then, in the afternoon. I went jogging, so when the thing started, I was really hungry," he added...

Author: By Thomas J. Meyer, | Title: Harvard Senior Munches To Victory | 2/20/1982 | See Source »

...have to take exams"). One sits at a chair and looks out the window. Cambridge does not even have the grace to be covered with snow ("What if Harry Levin actually wrote the plays of Shakespeare?"). Sulpher-laden ice spreads like cancer over the Charles and Roast Beef Specials cost 60 ("If the Atlantic rose a few inches, Boston would be devasted and there wouldn't be any exams...

Author: By George H. Rosen, | Title: Doom | 1/18/1982 | See Source »

...August 20th. But if I read 800 words a minute for seveteen hours a..."). Cold fact asserts itself through sleep-drugged minds ("Gazelles cannot actually leap; they are merely very poor flyers"), until fact and fancy no longer collide but merge like an icy cancer spreading over a Roast Beef Special ("If the Atlantic rose and drowned all the gazelles there might not be any Harry Levin...

Author: By George H. Rosen, | Title: Doom | 1/18/1982 | See Source »

SCTV (NBC). The funniest nights on television, with TV itself the target of repeated maulings by a company of six comic assassins. Their "Sammy Maudlin Show," an excursion into late-night chat and sleaze, has a kind of purgatorial hilarity, like a Friars' roast written by Sartre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Best of 1981: Video | 1/4/1982 | See Source »

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