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Green (her street name) is tripping again. The 16-year-old girl took two hits of acid at 3:30 p.m., and now, two hours later, she can't stop laughing. She sits on the floor of a barren room in a Hollywood squat, giggling and staring at the flicker of a small candle. Her boyfriend, Troll, a 23-year-old from Dallas who has been homeless since he was 17, lies on the floor asleep. They met during a food fight at a local youth center. "I need a beer," she says. "Does anybody have some beer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Running Scared | 11/21/1994 | See Source »

...other experts say such analysis is unnecessarily alarmist and damaging to American business. "I think those engines don't mean squat," says Charles Bernard, a former Pentagon official. "The French make an engine that size, as well as the Brits and the Germans. A lot of people would sell them an engine. There are mysterious, scary transactions, but this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Confounded By the Chinese Puzzle | 4/25/1994 | See Source »

...forget about Arkansas, North Carolina, UConn and Missouri. They don't have squat on the college basketball being played on ESPN this week--every night...

Author: By Darren Kilfara, | Title: Championship Weak | 3/9/1994 | See Source »

...times for guy dieties, even those who are elected. George Bush, in another sketch, is fishing from the presidential yacht with Willie Horton -- got him out of prison for the afternoon, figured he owed Willie a lot -- when news breaks of an invasion of Chicago: wave after wave of squat, flat- nosed horsemen in leather skirts, waving their fists and rolling their little red eyes. Bush calls for bipartisanship and issues a statement that barbarianism is a long-term problem, no quick solutions, the answer is education. The President will, it is promised, decide soon whether to name a barbarian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dionysus At 50 and More Woe | 11/22/1993 | See Source »

...reason why the Throne Room, the red chamber where knights are dubbed beneath a plaster frieze of roly-poly figures enacting scenes from the Wars of the Roses, is so curiously ungrand. Not all of that is Blore's fault -- the squat thrones themselves, one with EIIR embroidered on it and the other with P for Philip, were done in 1953 and look Hollywood-Ruritanian, if not suburban. You can't help reflecting on the amount of lobbying from aspirant title seekers that has focused on this red room over the past century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Buckingham Palace: 18 Rms, No Royal Vu | 8/30/1993 | See Source »

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