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...Living Color was a favorite with gulf soldiers, who yelled his phrase "Homey don't play that!" after hitting enemy targets. In New York City a 10-year-old bragged that he was imitating the ornery Homey when he hit an old lady on the head with a sock full of sand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great TV Expose-O-Meter | 3/18/1991 | See Source »

...reliable supply, every year that we pay $10 instead of $21 for foreign oil, we could buy an extra year's supply to sock away if we wanted to, and we would still come out ahead. Meanwhile, more domestic oil would remain in the ground for future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gulf: Why Are We in Saudi Arabia? | 9/3/1990 | See Source »

...times, when Haskell goes on once again in her self-congratulatory way about what an erudite, incisive film critic and all-around wonderful guy she is married to, one has to fight the urge to stuff a sock in her mouth. But every few pages, she comes up with an observation so brilliantly right, so original, that one says instead, Molly, pull up a chair and please, please, keep talking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: When Complications Occur | 4/30/1990 | See Source »

...turns out, however, that the space between the bottom of our doors and the floor is as thin as linguine. Opening and closing our doors thus becomes a major ordeal, worse than maneuvering an overstuffed sock drawer at eight-thirty in the morning...

Author: By Daniel B. Baer, | Title: The Politics of Phony Solutions | 10/31/1989 | See Source »

...first ever Bay Bridge World Series pits the batting fireworks of Oakland's Bash Brothers vs. San Francisco's Sock Exchange, and Hot Dog Henderson vs. Will the Thrill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page Vol. 134, No. 17 OCTOBER 23, 1989 | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

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