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...your entrance into the communal dressing room. (A piece of advice--bureaucratic large stores like the Boston one will only allow six pieces in the dressing room and they will not let you go out for more stuff. If you only have a short time, wear leggings and a tank top under your clothes and change in the aisles. You won't be the only...

Author: By Eleni N. Gage, | Title: A Personal Voyage to Filene's Basement | 3/10/1994 | See Source »

When we woke up, there were already cars waiting in line to get gas. I guess they had been open for hours, but people had not wanted to wake us up. When I got out of the car to fill the tank, the attendant gave me a sort of weird look and did not block my path to the pump. I guess Young Jin and I scared them somewhat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Of Nudes, Cars, and Montreal | 3/10/1994 | See Source »

...heavies, moreover, are considerably less frightening than those in real life. Murders on these shows are nearly always committed by well-groomed, well-to-do white people, and the deeds are neat, bloodless, imaginatively staged. In recent weeks we have seen a magician drown in a tank of water when his escape trick is sabotaged (Diagnosis Murder); a late-night TV host electrocuted by his microphone at a Friars-type roast (Burke's Law); and a manic-depressive book editor driven to near madness and pushed off a building roof to feign a suicide (Murder, She Wrote). Murders are never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Murder, They Wheezed | 2/28/1994 | See Source »

...they pulled out, some of the ordinary Serb soldiers seemed to think peace was coming. On the main road above Sarajevo, crew members were repairing an old Russian-made T-55 tank, its dirty green hull covered with slush. "Hello, my name is Borislav," one of the crew called out. "I'm 28 and a Leo." The war had gone on too long, he said. "It is time to go home. We will be gone before NATO comes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Words Are Not Enough | 2/28/1994 | See Source »

...When the real estate market went into the tank, the companies couldn't repay [their] loans," Los Angeles attorney Richard Burdge said in an interview last year...

Author: By Joe Mathews, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: HBS Prof. Defaulted On Numerous Loans | 2/18/1994 | See Source »

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