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...nicer than Briggs Hall, and a hell of a lot closer to campus. Still though, what's not to like about an elevator that buzzes instead of ringing at each floor, a wood-columned common room ruined by gloomy slate-blue paint, or a broken down stairway that hasn't even had the missing poles in the banister replaced...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: Shortchanging the Suburbs | 1/30/1986 | See Source »

...security cordon at the airport that day and shot Aquino on the tarmac before being felled by a fatal barrage from nearby guards. The justices dismissed all evidence that buttressed the prosecution's argument that Aquino was instead slain by a soldier on the jetliner's service stairway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines A Lady Faces Marcos | 12/16/1985 | See Source »

...Planes and walls jag fetchingly, as in real cities. Rounding a corner or descending a stair, / there are architectural surprises. Store names may be as treacly as the stuff they sell (Deck the Walls, Let's Make a Daiquiri and I Can't Believe It's Yogurt), but steel stairway railings and iron treads are raw and hard- edged, in keeping with the Bessemer grittiness of the original shed. In all, the commercial arcades work hard to be interesting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: New Gilded Age Grandeur | 9/2/1985 | See Source »

...other way around, stuff like that. When I was little, I had all the usual feelings of guilt. I was very conscious of God watching everything I did. Until I was eleven or twelve, I believed the devil was in my basement and I would run up the stairway fast so he wouldn't grab my ankles. We had the kind of stairway where there were spaces between each step...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Now: Madonna on Madonna | 5/27/1985 | See Source »

...security officers. Chief Prosecutor Manuel Herrera, who escorted the terrified Quijano into the Sandiganbayan, the court where the trial was in its eleventh week, did not ask her to name the assassin. But Herrera speculated that he could be Metrocom Constable Rogelio Moreno, who walked down the airplane stairway behind Aquino...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines What the Crying Lady Saw | 5/13/1985 | See Source »

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