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...family who was in charge of putting the hair on the toothpaste. (They all denied it, of course.) Yet the phenomenon continued throughout freshman year. At night I would check the toothpaste carefully, and put the cover on tightly. Every morning I would rush to the sink and unscrew the toothpaste, and there it was--a series of brown hairs stuck smack dab in the middle of the tube opening...

Author: By Eric Pulier, | Title: Hair Today, Still There Tomorrow | 12/10/1987 | See Source »

...each other, no one in Claremont Street would have given her a garment which was worse than something someone else had given her." Her presence seems ubiquitous: "There was hardly a dinner party in Claremont Street where Weekly was not in the kitchen crashing cutlery and dishes in the sink"; yet the people she works for know nothing at all about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Flowerings the Newspaper of Claremont Street | 12/7/1987 | See Source »

...girl being a naughty boy," she tells him, perhaps before he has even flirted with a naughty thought. But Dan is a man, and pathetically ordinary. From curiosity or concupiscence, from boredom or weakness, he goes to her apartment. Next thing, they are making mad sex by the kitchen sink. Dirty dishes clatter under her buttocks. Tap water lubricates their lust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Killer! Fatal Attraction strikes gold as a parable of sexual guilt | 11/16/1987 | See Source »

...parties have issued alarms about the growth of America's budget and trade deficits. And yet the problems grew and grew. Now dubbed the twin towers, a reference to Manhattan's World Trade Center and the long shadows it casts across Wall Street, the hulking deficits are threatening to sink the U.S. economy. In just a twinkling, between 1981 and 1986, the U.S. has metamorphosed from the world's largest creditor to the biggest borrower, carrying a net debt to foreigners that is expected to hit $1 trillion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Crash: In The Shadows of the Twin Towers | 11/2/1987 | See Source »

...Hotel New Hampshire, John Irving. All Hallow's Eve, Irving-style. Giant spikers. Heart attacks. Tortured children. A tragic rape. But there's the usual dose of good humor here, and Irving's spirit shines through bigger than the State o' Maine itself. This is Halloween candy to sink your wisdom teeth into, the Snickers bar in the bag of Golden Delicious apples...

Author: By Daniel Vilmure, | Title: Halloween Bedtime Stories | 10/31/1987 | See Source »

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