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...whale is hunted down by the great-great-grandson of Captain Ahab, Lieut. General Ahab. Backed by the United Nations, Ahab blasts Moby Dick out of the water. From a land base, the intransigent mammal denies U.N. inspectors the right to see his spout, suggesting that Moby-Dick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What If Scarlett Sequel Fever Caught On? | 10/7/1991 | See Source »

...final jingle of change through the slot above the lion-head spout served a cup of coffee for eternity. Last week Horn & Hardart closed the nation's last surviving Automat, on New York City's 42nd Street, two blocks east of Grand Central station. First opened in 1912, the cafeterias served 400,000 customers a day at their peak in the early 1950s. Famous actresses, well-heeled businessmen and just plain folks plunked their coins into glass-and-chrome dispensers to feast on such fare as Boston baked beans, macaroni and cheese and coconut-custard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RESTAURANTS: Requiem for Horn & Hardart | 4/22/1991 | See Source »

...members of AALARM obviously are not satisfied. And, as the staff editorial points out, listening to AALARM spout lunch-counter rhetoric is "the epitome of hypocrisy...

Author: By Daniel J. Lehman, | Title: Respect Conscientious Objectors | 12/13/1990 | See Source »

...elite America to the American public. Democrats have a golden opportunity to reclaim their populist identity as the party of the working and middle classes in America. By supporting tax equity and fairness, they can focus attention on solving domestic problems that have been neglected too long. Rather than spout empty tax rhetoric that nobody believes anymore, Democrats can begin to address the problems that President Bush has abandoned...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Let Bush Be the Bad Guy | 10/17/1990 | See Source »

Inevitably, they spout a steady stream of happy chatter contending that Harvard has the most brilliant professors and the biggest libraries and the prettiest buildings in the Western Hemisphere...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: . . .and More Than You Bargained for | 9/10/1990 | See Source »

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