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...their instant emotional familiarity, the way they seem to carry so much of Snow's emotional freight with no strain. The record's last song, Cardiac Arrest, is a kick, a stops-out rocker that dares to be a little goofy, that cuts the listener a little welcome slack. Even here, though, Snow is laughing at the expense of a mangled heart. The women Snow sings about put themselves at perpetual high risk. I'm Your Girl, the record's midpoint and one of its high points, sounds at first like another improbably beguiling Snow song about love gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Throwing In the Crying Towel | 5/1/1989 | See Source »

...make much fuss about that--he's very discreet," said the course's instructor, Senior Preceptor Anne Slack. "He's very much like any other student...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bonjour, Professor; Welcome to French | 4/6/1989 | See Source »

Warren's area of expertise led him to study French. He began his study the fall of 1987, when Slack tested him and enrolled him in French F. Occasionally the work has been too much for his schedule; this fall he began French Hb, but had to stop because he did not have the time to do the classwork...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bonjour, Professor; Welcome to French | 4/6/1989 | See Source »

Warren and Slack both say that the lawprofessor works on the same grade scale as otherstudents, and that he does the same work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bonjour, Professor; Welcome to French | 4/6/1989 | See Source »

...Government study concluded, however, that if foreign supplies were cut off oil prices would quickly skyrocket, inevitably sending the economy into a tailspin. Because production takes years to gear up, the U.S. petroleum industry could not fully make up the slack of the lost imports. Says John Boatwright, Exxon's chief domestic economist: "It's not a garden hose you can turn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Step on The Gas, Pay the Price | 4/3/1989 | See Source »

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