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...first day back that the temperature reaches sixty, you tear off that down jacket and walk through the Yard in the yellow South-of-the Border t-shirt and the ebony south-of-the Carolinas tan that proclaims to the world, "I know where the good times roll"--that makes the pain of waking up for Fine Arts 175 worthwhile...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Join the Pilgrimage! Florida Over Spring Break | 3/14/1981 | See Source »

...American Pie," 642 beers and one homecoming stop at Buzzy's later--every cell of your being will be satiated with sun, sand, alcohol and the smell of your fellow sun lovers crammed into that Duster for all those hours. But it will have been worth it--the tan alone would be enough; the frisbee games, margaritas and girl you met in Daytona are extra cheese in the taco...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Join the Pilgrimage! Florida Over Spring Break | 3/14/1981 | See Source »

Pale but primly attired in a tan silk blouse and wool skirt that would have made a Madeira mother proud, Harris described for the court in harrowing detail a growing desire to kill herself, an urge compounded by Tarnower's infidelity and her own job pressures. Things were not going well at Madeira. Harris had disciplined a student for sorority hazing, and, more recently, expelled four others for evidence of marijuana use. Then she received a critical letter from the girl who had been the victim of the hazing. The school's trustees were beginning to question Harris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Things She Did for Love | 2/9/1981 | See Source »

Action Herbie is a regular. He made a killing in the furniture business years ago, and now he wanders down south every Christmas to play the tables and work on his tan. Action Herbie bets so much that the Casino even gave him a special award a few years back. Something about contributions to the industry...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Three-Boat Action | 1/9/1981 | See Source »

...Washington state Republican Party, and a sensitive psychiatric social worker. Yet he was also possessed by what he called his "little problem," which rode him even as his career in politics began to accelerate. Occasionally it would drive him to cruise neat suburban neighborhoods or college districts in his tan VW looking for young women to rape, strangle, sodomize, or smash with crowbars...

Author: By F. MARK Muro, | Title: Stalking the Wild Sociopath | 12/2/1980 | See Source »

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