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...Gray's place. The task is monumental, but Thomas perseveres even when mothers she loves desert her and return to the seductive glow of the crack pipe. "If they don't hear me now, they'll hear me later," she says. "Some will leave, start smoking rocks again and sink back to the gutter. But even when they're down there, they'll keep hearing Minnie. And they'll be back." It is a blessing that Minnie Thomas will be waiting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mandela House: A Hand and a Home For Pregnant Addicts | 2/27/1989 | See Source »

...almost feels like it isn't over," senior Paul Howley said. "It's going to take a while to sink...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Cleary Finally Climbs to the Top of the Beanstalk | 2/14/1989 | See Source »

...Well, as [Harvard women's assistant coach and former Harvard men's] Coach Jack Barnaby once said, `We're going to throw everything at them except the kitchen sink, and then we're going to pick that up and throw it at them too,' Harvard Co-Captain Frank Huerta said. "We're going to give it our best shot. They're solid from one to three, but ours are too. From four to seven is where we can make a break...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: The Match: Harvard vs. Princeton | 2/3/1989 | See Source »

Piano Lesson debuted more than a year ago at the Yale Repertory Theater, where Wilson has launched all his plays. In that production, the work seemed an intriguing but unpolished amalgam of kitchen-sink realism (there is literally one onstage) and window-rattling, curtain-swirling supernaturalism. Not much of the actual text has changed. But at the Goodman the play confidently shuttles spectators between the everyday present and the ghostly remnants of the past, until ultimately the two worlds collide. The first glimpse of the spookily poetic comes before a word is spoken, when a shaft of white light illumines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: A Ghostly Past, in Ragtime | 1/30/1989 | See Source »

...excerpts from secretly recorded tapes of John F. Kennedy's deliberations with his top advisers. In contrast to the traditional version of the episode, one of the leading hawks, at least initially, is the President's brother Bobby. He is heard suggesting that it may be necessary to "sink the Maine again or something" as a pretext for a U.S. invasion of Cuba...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: The History of the Bomb | 1/30/1989 | See Source »

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