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Perspective usually comes in time. Someday Boston Red Sox fans will forgive Bill Buckner for letting a ground ball slip through his legs in the sixth game of the 1986 World Series...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: The Smiling Face of Defeat | 5/24/1989 | See Source »

...sophistication of gay humor. Until now it has been performed mostly by male transvestites, although hip straights make appreciative audiences in the clubs. Some are joining in. Danielle Leyshon, a waitress who vogues at the Smart Bar in Chicago, says enthusiastically that the dance can easily slip into "a battle of who looks more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: They're Puttin' On the Vogue | 5/22/1989 | See Source »

Yasser Arafat speaks passable English but hardly a syllable of French. So it was no slip of the tongue when the chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization chose to use a French word during a live interview on France's TF1 television channel. At one point, Arafat declared as caduque -- a legal term meaning null and void -- the controversial 1964 P.L.O. charter, which calls for the destruction of Israel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East Null and Void | 5/15/1989 | See Source »

...Harvard wasn't going to let this one slip away...

Author: By Sandra Block, | Title: Laxwomen Crown Loyola, 12-6 | 4/29/1989 | See Source »

Yesterday's contest was another game that Harvard let slip away. It was just another game that added to the Crimson's frustrations...

Author: By Christine Dimino, | Title: Boston University Rallies Past Batsmen, 10-6 | 4/28/1989 | See Source »

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