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...waves, stepping over their own wounded on the battlefield, before many fell to join them. "If you ever wanted to know what suicide means," said an Iraqi officer at the site, "you should have seen how they advanced and how they were mowed down. Then the flies began to swarm over the Iranian dead. That's all you could see: the sand, the flies and the corpses. I have never seen anything like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Persian Gulf: Sandy Flies and Corpses | 8/2/1982 | See Source »

...more than a tour de force. It takes true stamina to be so profoundly lost. After all these years on the road, Lind is no more bitter and no less funny than when he started, an impressive feat given the course of history in the meantime. His mind may swarm with hoofed and steaming demons like a phantasmagoric painting by Pieter Bruegel, but he can still grin at the bared fangs of his own beasts. He has not become a beast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tourist Trap | 4/26/1982 | See Source »

DURING THE LAST WEEK of March, an angry swarm of protesters descended on Capitol Hill, determined to make their government listen to them. The demonstrators weren't scruffy college students upset about El Salvador. They were from the American-as-polyester National Association of Realtors, and their convention had given Ronald Reagan a standing ovation just a day earlier. But with interest rates stuck well above 16 percent, realtors just can't sell any homes, even at prices that in some places have fallen 25 percent from last year. So the realtors had come to town to demand that Congress...

Author: By Chuck Lane, | Title: Dismantling Reaganomics | 4/20/1982 | See Source »

...Faneuil Hall--sits an outpost of youthful chicken slingers clad in the orange and black colors of Alex's little kingdom. Moored in the harbor's greenish-brown water in the moth-balled U.S.S. Constellation, cousin of Boson's Constitution, and a favorites among the hordes of tourists who swarm through the twin glass-enclosed pavilions every day in the slimmer. They gawk at the awkward old boat and munch on Alex's chicken...

Author: By Rebecca J. Joseph, | Title: Serving Up the Sizzled Bird | 3/9/1982 | See Source »

Colby fell into a defensive shell for most of the third period, often having to ice the puck to take the pressure off of their goalie. The Crimson skaters continued to swarm the net, but they kept coming up empty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Colby Shuts Down Skaters' Attack, 2-0 | 1/15/1982 | See Source »

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