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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Conviction would probably result in probationary exclusion from tournaments and television. Then Kentucky would be within one felony of the NCAA's newfound "death penalty": a one- or two-year shutdown of the sort that has reduced the football program at Southern Methodist University to intramurals. Retribution is mine, sayeth the NCAA...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: You Do It Until You Get Caught | 1/9/1989 | See Source »

...Vengeance will be mine, sayeth the Lord...

Author: By Andrea Shen, | Title: The Metaphysical Writing on the Wall (and Desks) | 12/17/1985 | See Source »

Loose lips, eccentric behavior-characteristics long affixed to this town-have to be searched for now, rooted out. Oh, evangelists still holler on the radio stations: they do not say things so much as they "sayeth" them. And H. Ross Perot did plan a commando operation against a whole country, Iran, to get two of his employees back. "Mad" Eddie Chiles-an ideologue who, says a longtime listener, "lives in a permanent state of incoherent fury"-is still on the air, and people drive around sporting bumper stickers that say I'M MAD, TOO, EDDIE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Showing Off for the G.O.P. | 8/20/1984 | See Source »

...modern painting doesn't mean there is anything wrong with it; paintings have no function but to provoke and entertain, and that is the province of personal taste. But architecture is different. It affects us everyday, and when it fails us, our lives are the poorer for it. And, sayeth the prophet Wolfe with characteristic grace and enthusiasm, architecture has failed us on a grand scale...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Wolfe's Bau-Wow House | 10/27/1981 | See Source »

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