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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...labors have brought no championships. Morton, the 1986 Ivy League Sophomore of the Year and ECAC Rookie of the Year, is a star in a sky dominated by gray clouds. A top-flight receiver in a struggling program...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Morton: A Star Hidden by Gray Clouds | 10/15/1988 | See Source »

Outside the terminal the wind was blowing cold, and on the horizon the skyscrapers rose up against a dark sky; it looked like the clouds were going to bowl and smash into the buildings, piling them into the harbor. I followed people with suitcases to the bus shelter and waited for the T shuttle. Across the tracks at the Blue Line stop, the woman on a temp poster had been spray painted to look like a snaggle-toothed devil; someone had even taken the trouble to climb over the third rail, draw in a penis by her mouth and scrawl...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: Situations Wanted | 10/13/1988 | See Source »

...Columbia football team, owner of a 44-game losing streak, beat Princeton, 16-13, Saturday in New York. Shouts rose to the sky. Goalposts came crashing to the earth...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Forty-Four Games Later, a Victory | 10/11/1988 | See Source »

Shouts rose to the sky. Goalposts crashed to the earth...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Forty-Four Games Later, a Victory | 10/11/1988 | See Source »

...Soviet Union has begun a generation-long program to explore Mars that is expected to end with cosmonauts landing on the Red Planet, so prominent in the sky these nights, soon after the turn of the century. A Soviet scientist has announced that an automated roving vehicle will land there in 1994; one of its jobs will be to look for fossils. Fossils on Mars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Stardust Memories | 10/10/1988 | See Source »

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