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...home again. Symptoms of the disease are truly terrible: a bloviation of the prose, with cliches clanging at irregular intervals; a golly-gee nostalgia for the glitz of Manhattan when one was , young, yearning and oh-so-talented; and, for a few, an incurable lust to strew names like sunflower seeds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Willie Boy Was Here | 9/13/1993 | See Source »

After Hurricane Gilbert finished howling and hammering Jamaica last Monday, the lovely green-and-gold island had been transformed into a strew of twisted, tilted, ripped and battered debris. Kingston and outlying areas alike were an immense litter of downed trees, broken utility poles, tangles of electrical wires, a vista of demolished houses and blown tin roofs. The more the stunned Jamaicans meandered among the ruins, the worse things looked. Of the 2 1/2 million inhabitants, 500,000 were suddenly homeless; four-fifths of the nation's homes had been damaged or destroyed. Obstructions blocked and sealed off streets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jamaica: A Decade Lost in a Day | 9/26/1988 | See Source »

...Looking happy and even jubilant tonight. Good singer, John ny, best in class. Not a bad actor. Played George Gibbs in the senior production of Our Town and still thinks of Grover's Corners when, from soaring Pine Hill across the river, he looks down on the tilted strew of toy buildings that are Kittanning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Pennsylvania: A Time on the River | 7/24/1978 | See Source »

While we're on the subject of golf, the latest spin-off since the day when King James I ruled Scotland is frisbee golf. In brief, the players try to toss frisbees into baskets fastened to poles while avoiding the natural hazards that strew the course. Three free courses are enjoying heavy traffic in Loss Angeles Country. The one in Pasadena attracts 5000 players a week. The 18-hole low score...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Carter Takes Office: Sports at Watershed | 1/28/1977 | See Source »

...gauge their strength. They reveal themselves from time to time in unexpected ways: a worker who makes deliveries between Managua and Leon says he picked up a Sandinista who was hitchhiking to El Salvador to buy arms, and people in Managua are said to run after automobiles that quickly strew the Front's literature in the darkened streets...

Author: By Daniel Swanson, | Title: Dispatch from Nicaragua | 4/16/1975 | See Source »

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