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Dates: during 1980-1989
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However, the eve of Saint Patrick's Day saw little good humor during an acrimonious four-hour hearing attended by 100 city cab drivers. Of the many proposals discussed, the councilors and members of the cab industry agreed on only one: a 25 percent increase in city cab fares. The increase would be the first in six years, a period which has seen a cumulative inflation of 37 percent...

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, | Title: Council Mulls New Taxi Rules To Consider at Next Meeting | 3/17/1987 | See Source »

...sports a top-flight scorer in Dave Saunders, who recorded 10 goals and 25 assists for 35 points during the regular season. The brothers Lappin, Pete (21-12--33) and Tim (8-21--9), also provide Saint scoring punch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale, St. Lawrence Battle in Other Semi | 3/13/1987 | See Source »

...dismantaling of Vermont in the ECAC quarterfinals, the Saint offense shone the first night. The "Chicago Connection" of the Lappin brothers and right wing Joe Day--the team's second line--connected for six goals and seven assists as the Larries buried the Catamounts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale, St. Lawrence Battle in Other Semi | 3/13/1987 | See Source »

...N.C.A.A. used to waste its time asserting in courtrooms, Tarkanian is not precisely a saint, though in 14 Nevada winters he has provided Father Flanagan with a run for his money. There is no such thing as a bad boy who can shoot a 19-ft. jump shot, and one of the most promising recruits in years is warming up right now in a Los Angeles detention home. Another standby, Brooklyn Street Legend Lloyd Daniels, was busted for an alleged cocaine offense two weeks ago, bringing shame on his four high schools. "We don't get the McDonald...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Making Its Points, the Hard Way | 3/2/1987 | See Source »

...spreading art's pernicious messages through popular magazines. Hypocrisy was the order of the day. Thus Albert von Keller's lubricious portrait of a naked woman crucified bears the pious title Martyr, and all those nude beauties frolicking around that white-bearded codger represent Lovis Corinth's Temptation of Saint Anthony. Exotic suggestions of bestiality (as with Salammbo) provided another popular theme. Arthur Wardle's Bacchante cavorts with a whole herd of amorous leopards, and Frederick Stuart Church's Enchantress strolls through the wilderness with two tigers "whose growling jaws suggested the vagina dentata which turn-of-the-century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Self-Indulgences Idols of Perversity | 3/2/1987 | See Source »

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