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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...real estate in California's San Gabriel Mountains, where waterborne debris can roar down hillsides and turn million- dollar dream houses into nightmares for owners and insurance companies. McPhee's strength is the odd detail of natural disaster: "The house became buried to the eaves. Boulders sat on the roof. Thirteen automobiles were packed around the building, including five in the pool . . . The stuck horn of a buried car was blaring. The family in the darkness in their fixed tableau - watched one another by the light of a directional signal endlessly blinking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Elementals | 8/7/1989 | See Source »

Holworthy is also close to Broadway Supermarket--where liquor, mixers, ice and munchies can all be bought under one roof. Not only was I the only roommate to show up with a bottle of vodka, I was also the only one to arrive with a fake I.D. Broadway and I became friends. Good friends...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, | Title: Just Remember One Thing: Avoid Any B-31 Room | 7/7/1989 | See Source »

...Watergate was undermining the integrity of the presidency. Young men walked around with hair down to the peace-symbol patches on the pockets of their jeans. Sexual norms were changing--during Bhutto's sophomore year at the University, Radcliffe and Harvard began housing men and women under the same roof...

Author: By Madhavi Sunder, | Title: Behind 'Pinkie' Bhutto's Passion for Politics | 6/8/1989 | See Source »

...fully expect we will break the [1986] record by graduation," Orchard said yesterday. "Class spirit really starts to build as graduation gets closer. Fundraising goes though the roof...

Author: By Stephen J. Newman, | Title: Class Gift May Break Records | 6/7/1989 | See Source »

Despite an exhausting days-long walk, frigid air and high fees, climbers are flocking to ascend to the roof of Africa, immortalized in The Snows of Kilimanjaro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page Vol. 133 No. 23 JUNE 5, 1989 | 6/5/1989 | See Source »

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