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...guess I just did not have enough confidence at the time to "shoot everyone the finger," so to speak. For awhile, I adopted the strangest manner of dress, suitable for gypsy costumes in a late 1930s musical. I despised things Dallas or Southern, and I rejected bar-b-qued chicken, okra and squash souffle. My parents, I think, believed I was mad, and they wrung their hands in despair...

Author: By Katherine E. Bliss, | Title: A Texan Avoiding Becoming a `Blue-Bellied Yankee' | 7/7/1989 | See Source »

...brief moment at Monday night's City Council meeting, one of the strangest political alliances in Cambridge history seemed to coalesce...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Council Makes Strange Bedfellows | 5/10/1989 | See Source »

...strangest thing from my point of view is the way that this feeling about the United States being a rotten country was that the people responsible for that were universities," Pusey adds. "This I find absolutely shocking, that anyone could have been at Harvard and come to an idea like that. I thought it would have to be a damn fool...

Author: By Adam K. Goodheart, | Title: 'And Don't Think Young People Can't Be Evil' | 4/7/1989 | See Source »

...sports, deception lurks in the strangest places. Scores, for example, can exaggeragte a team's domination, or they can mask a team's flaws...

Author: By Christine Dimino, | Title: Women Cagers Fall to Dartmouth, 65-62 | 3/8/1989 | See Source »

...strange ideas in physics, perhaps the strangest is the wormhole. It comes perilously close to science fiction: a wormhole is a hole in the fabric of space and time, a tunnel to a distant part of the universe. While no one has proved that wormholes exist, that does not for a moment keep the more adventurous of thinkers from trying to figure how they might behave. Last fall, for example, three researchers from Caltech floated the notion that in theory at least, wormholes could be time machines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Wormholes in The Heavens | 1/16/1989 | See Source »

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