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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other street-smart naifs. One story is a kelped and matted address delivered by a castaway young woman to the baby inside her; another, the erotically charged rural reminiscence of an old lady; a third, the juiced-up riff of a 20-year-old rock 'n' roller, strutting his stuff with the swagger of the vulnerable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Loose Ends FAST LANES | 6/1/1987 | See Source »

Wilbur and Orville shows how the Wright stuff got aviation off the ground. -- The restless, searching stories of Jayne Anne Phillips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page JUNE 1, 1987 Vol. 129 No. 22 | 6/1/1987 | See Source »

...pinko playwright ranged far and wide in his search for material to transform into his own dramas. He rivaled Shakespeare, the literary grave-robber supreme, in his audacious choice of sources. Twenties cinema, 18th century musicals, Renaissance history, Jack London stories; in Brecht's hands they all became the stuff of his proletarian "epic" theater...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: The Good Woman of Serban | 5/29/1987 | See Source »

...pump is an economy device. I assume it prevents you from having to squeeze all the stuff up from the bottom, the way the Crest people tell you to use your paste. Still, does toothpaste cost so much that we have to scrape every last brushfull out of the dispenser...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: Turning 30 | 5/27/1987 | See Source »

THIS IS the last "Stuff I Think" of this year. Come to think of it, this is the last "Stuff I Think" ever...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: Turning 30 | 5/27/1987 | See Source »

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