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...expected to roll past the competition for a fourth this weekend at the N.S.A. championships in Anaheim, Calif. Hawk turned pro three years ago, and since then his aerobatic antics have appeared in a Mountain Dew commercial, Italian and Japanese TV shows about him, and the films Thrashin and Police Academy IV. His income is soaring toward six figures, and a skateboard and a line of sports clothing bear his name. What does he like to do with his downtime? Well, a little surfing, and "I really like just going out and skating alone," he says. "It's my favorite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 15, 1986 | 1/26/2007 | See Source »

...Thrashin'," co-producer Thomas Dolby injects an effete strain by leading Clinton & Co. on a ride in a "space limousine." With lines like, "Thrashin', mashin'/Cashin' in on the groove. . . . /Take no prisoners/Show no mercy," Parliament's old leader and his Anglo sidekick make no bones about their beefs. As the title track says, our potential for good times is being suffocated within our materialist, conservative regime. Just "like we split a pair of genes/We split the whole world at the seams...

Author: By Ari Z. Posner, | Title: Vinyl in Boston | 10/10/1985 | See Source »

...leaves. The bear flopped down just exactly where I was at before I leaped aside. Shot clean through the head, but still had some fight left. For a few moments, there we was, lyin' side by side, I and the bear, but not peaceful-like, him thrashin' around until he died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Bear Hunter | 1/4/1960 | See Source »

...poured down on the wheat fields of Red River Valley and on the crowd gathered around a dusty truck. A sunburned farmer squinted appraisingly at a little man standing and shouting on the truck's tailpiece. "He wouldn't be no account on a thrashin' gang," the farmer said. "But I reckon he's smart. And he talks plain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOOD: Butch Goes West | 5/6/1946 | See Source »

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