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"The work I do takes on a tremendously individual tone, nonclassifiable as it is, because of my interest in things of no great popular interest," says Parks, sounding out and savoring each word as if he were sizing it for a verbal nutcracker. "This," he adds, "has meant commercial embarrassment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Town Crier of Weird | 1/22/1990 | See Source »

Longer range, Bush is running a risk of subtly and unintentionally undermining his Administration. A primal commandment for new Presidents, particularly those faced with a Congress controlled by the opposition party: Thou shalt avoid early defeats. The opening days are the time when Congress and the public -- and foreign leaders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is This Goodbye? | 3/6/1989 | See Source »

"THERE'S THE 'peace through trust guys' and the 'peace through strength guys,''' an Army general said a few years ago, sizing up the chief division between nuclear strategists. Not quite. The schism is really between the 'peace through superiority guys' and the 'peace through parity-because-superiority-is unattainable/too...

Author: By Mitchell Berman, | Title: Nukes and Crannies | 3/9/1987 | See Source »

"WHAT NEXT! What next!" Austin was jumping up and down in destructive glee, a two-inch, 27 ounce steel chrome sizing ball oscillating dangerously in his sweaty palm. All around him in a happy cornucopia of wanton destruction lay the mangled, twisted remains of a tin of cookies, a beer...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: Study Breaking | 1/28/1987 | See Source »

The steel sizing ball which had become our weapon was the inexplicable product of a government surplus catalogue. Austin, a veteran consumer of the obscure, has an obsession for buying anything advertised with exclamation points--"Two-inch diameter! 27 ounces!" After three intense hours of academic grundgework--a feat of...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: Study Breaking | 1/28/1987 | See Source »

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