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February 10: My parents arrived in Cambridge with a team of deprogramming experts. They tried to convince me that TETRIS is a communist plot to despoil the minds of American youth. I responded that the Cold War is over, and showed them my new tatoo of Mikhail Gorbachev...

Author: By Tara A. Nayak, | Title: Confessions of a TETRIS Junkie | 2/28/1990 | See Source »

...they could manage were random streaks which looked like the work of a drunken tatoo artist--but which definitely made Branca the most noticeable player in the pool the next...

Author: By Adam J. Epstein, | Title: Branca Nabs Shmen "Honors" | 10/30/1986 | See Source »

...humming obnoxiously. Suddenly he lashes out to knock down the younger worker, while the older guard just stands there and lets them escape. Marlow is confused until Zaleshoff later explains that he had noticed a tiny scar on the man's arm. Italian workers in 1923 used to tatoo a hammer and sickle on their arms in the early days of fascism to show they didn't give a damn if anybody knew they were communists. This defiance wisely abated, but Zaleshoff had guessed about the scar and had been humming an old Italian worker's song until he could...

Author: By Richard Turner, | Title: My Senior Thesis | 3/11/1976 | See Source »

Phillip Weiss--Cincinnati in five. The Reds wear their double knits in much sleeker form than the Red Sox. But, then, so did the A's. Still, Cincinnati will burn the basepaths and tatoo the walls...

Author: By James W. Reinig, | Title: By Jiminy | 10/10/1975 | See Source »

...boys from Belfast. They had names like "Pride of the Shankill," "The Ligoniel True Blues," "Sons of Ulster," and "Young Conquerors." The drummers would weave in and around each other, dipping from side to side; they were the toughest-looking too, with rolled-up sleeves invariably revealing an Ulster tatoo...

Author: By Gregory F. Lawless, | Title: Britain, Orangeism: Pieces of the Ulster Puzzle | 9/15/1975 | See Source »

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