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...only be rooted in our past. (Anything rooted in our future would be too speculative to merit discussion.) The earliest human writers were Cave Men who recorded their activities in Cave Language each day with Cave Pens on Dinosaur Hide. This proved disastrous when the dinosaurs selfishly decided to sink into deep and ubiquitous mud pits that, for advanced scientific reasons, appeared directly under each and every dinosaur far more than 20 years...

Author: By Eric Pulier, | Title: Academia Nuts | 1/29/1988 | See Source »

...rapidly that even if they wanted to understand Iowa, they would not have time. Hence George Bush talks about debutante parties as if Dubuque were Greenwich, and Gary Hart thinks he can somehow walk away from an indulgent weekend. Pete du Pont promotes school vouchers that just might sink a lot of Iowa community schools already pressed to keep up the high quality established when corn sold high. Though Paul Simon, Richard Gephardt and Bob Dole come from neighboring states, they are power dwellers, long gone from the quiet desperations of Main Street. Anyway, they cannot linger too long. Iowa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It Seems to Work | 1/25/1988 | See Source »

...grabbed the lead. As naval exercises repeatedly demonstrate, a battle for control of the seas would largely be fought underwater. The U.S. Navy wants the Seawolf to track and destroy Soviet missile submarines before they can launch their deadly cargoes, and to neutralize Soviet attack subs before they can sink the U.S.'s vital missile-launching Trident fleet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Murky Waters for the Supersub | 1/25/1988 | See Source »

...supporting cast, like their leaders, are mainly washed up has-beens with too much pride to sink to do Hollywood Squares but not enough talent to make it onto The Love Boat. There's Mary Gross, for example, Donna Dixon and Charles Grodin. Grodin, actually, pulls off what seems like a stellar performance in comparison, but it's lost amidst the stale jokes and valium-inspired acting perpetrated by his cohorts and the rest of the cast, unknown actors who are destined to remain...

Author: By Jeffrey J. Wise, | Title: What A Long, Bad Trip It Is | 1/22/1988 | See Source »

Harvard came out tentative in the first game, and Navy built an early 7-4 lead. The Crimson kept close to the Midshipmen with the spiking of Freshman Henry Chang, but Navy Captain Chadwick Watson and the rest of his crew loosed an arsenal of slams to sink Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Navy Slams Spikers | 1/20/1988 | See Source »

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