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...result, the scene outside the Class of 1990 and 1991 Winnebagos was positively sordid...

Author: By Ira E. Stoll, | Title: The Game Was The Pits | 12/2/1991 | See Source »

...teams set the tone early--six penalties in the first 1:32--and kept up the lumbering pace throughout the game. In fact, the sordid affair ended the way it began: in complete chaos...

Author: By Ted G. Rose and Jay K. Varma, S | Title: Skating Dutchmen Faithful Have Much to Learn | 11/20/1991 | See Source »

...KNOW anything about Magic Johnson, you'll have to take the word of everyone who does that he is an amazing person, a paragon of unselfishness, humility, hard work, optimism and public-mindedness totally anomalous in today's sordid underworld of professional sports. It is no coincidence that the hundreds of players, reporters and league officials who know him personally--not to mention the millions of inner-city teenagers, schoolteachers, police officers and corporate executives who don't--were devastated by his announcement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Chance to Work Magic | 11/13/1991 | See Source »

...They are causing Anita Hill severe emotional anguish, even destroying her career, by dragging her sordid story into the public eye. Sexual harassment, Simpson explained, causes deep psychological scars. This was before he called such harassment "crap" during the hearings...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: Lame, Lame, Lame | 10/18/1991 | See Source »

...terrorize? If it had been done with knives and loaded guns, it would be easier to deal with. No, she took my affection for her and turned it into a sordid relationship involving sex. My first recollections of our interaction, when I was three, involve me sitting happily between her legs in a bathtub, both of us naked. I also remember her standing in front of me rubbing her breasts. At other times, she would fret over whether my bowels were all right. A regular ritual was a cleansing enema of sudsy water made with laundry detergent. I still recall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: My Own Story | 10/7/1991 | See Source »

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