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...weak? Sorta drowsy? Recite "The Bells" aloud into a tape deck, pop your recording into an industrial strength ghetto blaster, and let 'er rrrrrip, full volume, for dozing neighbors. Run-DMC's got nothin' on Poe... though they might make a mean team: "The TIN-too-NAB-yoo-LAY-shun of duh BELLS BELLS BELLS BELLS BELLS BELLS BELLS! HUNH...

Author: By Daniel Vilmure, | Title: Halloween Syllabus | 10/30/1986 | See Source »

...Producers as well as consumers should adopt policies that shun drastic interference in the market forces which may disturb the much sought for long-term stability," he said. "It is only through the acheivement of long-term free market equilibrium that stability can be [attained...

Author: By James D. Solomon, | Title: Says Mr. OPEC: Stabilize Oil Prices | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

...Producers as well as consumers should adopt policies that shun drastic interference in the market forces which may disturb the much sought for long-term stability," he said. "It is only through the acheivement of long-term free market equilibrium that stability can be [attained...

Author: By James D. Solomon, | Title: Says Mr. OPEC: Stabilize Oil Prices | 9/18/1986 | See Source »

Most small-craft pilots shun the "birdcages" around major airports whenever possible. William Kramer had no such choice: he took off from Torrance Municipal Airport, just ten miles from LAX, and was heading across the city toward Big Bear Lake, a resort area some 90 miles to the east. Kramer, who had moved from Spokane to the affluent Palos Verdes Peninsula early this year, had been licensed to fly for six years but had logged only 231 hours in the air, most of them in Washington's relatively uncrowded skies. On the fateful Sunday morning, Kramer reportedly bought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Collision in the Birdcage | 9/15/1986 | See Source »

...drug addict holds a peculiar place in society, not unlike the AIDS victim; the impulse to shun collides with the impulse to embrace. If the addict happens to be your colleague or your daughter, the confusion doubles; there are no impoverished minorities to pity or blame. You become a mote in history. For thousands of years, people have smoked, snorted, injected their way between paradise and self-murder, while the outer world has watched, scolded, legislated, not legislated, with barely the slightest comprehension...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Enemy Within | 9/15/1986 | See Source »

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