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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...characters that Wolfe so painstakingly describes are constricted by a system of emptiness and simplicity. The public life of a megalopolis like New York cannot do justice to the humanity of its constituents. The best and brightest, the Masters of the Universe, are gobbled up by the system and spit out in easily digestible tabloid form...

Author: By Susan B. Glasser, | Title: Crying Wolfe | 2/13/1988 | See Source »

Penn depends on Tyrone Pitts to lead the team. The only returning starter from last year, the 6-ft., 5-in. senior has bitten into opponents and spit out the pits, averaging 16.9 p.p.g., 7.1 r.p.g...

Author: By Casey J. Lartigue jr., | Title: Cagers Hit the Road for Weekend Series | 2/12/1988 | See Source »

Second of all, Harvard captains--or. at least most of them--aren't the rah-rah types. They don't tend to give speeches, chew guys (or gals) out or spit in their teammates' faces to get them riled...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Showing the Way | 1/22/1988 | See Source »

...Listen, lunatic," I began calmly, "you are stark raving mad, and I will tell you why...Christies, UHS, Store 24, CVS, RIX, Sages..." For 10 minutes I rattled off names of toothpaste-selling stores that I could spit on from my room. I was dragged away amidst chants "Satan's Child!" and "Down with Rationality...

Author: By Eric Pulier, | Title: The Insanity Defense | 12/17/1987 | See Source »

...course of an average week, Robert M. Parker Jr., 40, will sniff, sip and spit his way through hundreds of bottles of wine (reds in the morning, whites in the afternoon). The opinions recorded at his daily tastings are written up primarily for the 21,000 subscribers (at $30 a year) to his influential, fact-choked bi-monthly newsletter, The Wine Advocate. Finally, some of the judgments will mature into a book. November marked the publication of his third, The Wines of the Rhone Valley and Provence (Simon & Schuster; $22.95); both sections of France, Parker believes, offer good bargains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: The Man with a Paragon Palate | 12/14/1987 | See Source »

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