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...also acknowledged that no observers were stationed in the fire escape stairway, where students said they were treated roughly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UMass Students Protest Anti-CIA Rally | 12/6/1986 | See Source »

...three published novels. Each book explored a different genre. One book was, in her view, a "political romance," another concerned a Maine woman attacked by ruffians, and the third was an old- fashioned love story. King's sun-washed study, set in a remodeled stable loft, has a hidden stairway leading down to a toy-cluttered indoor swimming pool with a vaulted gothic-style ceiling. Tabitha calls it the Church of the Poisoned Mind. The children drift in and out frequently. Naomi, 16, comes by dressed in a Mickey Mouse T shirt and shorts, a departure from the standard King...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: King of Horror | 10/6/1986 | See Source »

...undefeated football team, ranked 12th in the nation among I-AA schools, has even vowed to ferry 18,000 lightbulbs from the basement to the top floors in a stairway scramble that university publicists have dubbed the "Charge of the Light Brigade...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UMass to Honor Mugabe; Students Fix Up Library | 9/27/1986 | See Source »

...PEOPLE! Single Rooms, the View, the Food, the Tower, the weight room, the big screen T.V., the carpeting, the "Concreatery" (the grill), milk and cookies, weekly open houses, the Herlihys, the "Concrete Abstract," "Mathering Heights," the tutors, the staff, the uncrowded suites, even the free standing stairway in the house library. But most of all, the house spirit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Getting to Know Your House | 4/7/1986 | See Source »

Their problems start with some little do-it-yourself fix-ups: on a rotted stair riser and a front-door lock that sticks. Working on them, Walter somehow causes both the stairway and the entranceway to collapse. That says nothing about what happens to the chimney when he carelessly tosses a log into the second-floor fireplace. What termites and neglect have put asunder eventually requires a crew of 100 to set to rights. And what happens to all of them when Anna innocently plugs a kitchen appliance into the workers' heavy- equipment circuit one sunny morning both defies description...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Coming Unglued the Money Pit | 3/31/1986 | See Source »

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