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...scores of passengers came down with severe diarrhea after eating a meal aboard a Japan Air Lines jet. It turned out that a food handler at a stopover in Alaska had caused the outbreak by coming to work, in violation of airline rules, with an infected cut on his thumb...

Author: By Jerry Doolittle, | Title: A Strange Yearning for The Truth | 11/3/1986 | See Source »

...function of the avant-garde to afflict the comfortable, to , stick a rude thumb into society's eye? Maybe not. Playwright Robert Coe, who has collaborated with both Glass and Anderson, has noted that the "avant- garde performing arts just don't play by the same rules as a decade ago . . . For the first time in the history of postwar experimental performance, serious artists have ceased to assume an attitude of indifference or superiority to the culture-at-large." Perhaps as a result, popular culture is no longer indifferent to them. Observes Byrne: "In the past, traditional artists didn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: North of Dallas, South of Houston | 10/27/1986 | See Source »

...Boggs was merely resting; there is ample precedent for players to protect their titles, even when their teams have not already clinched their divisional title, as the Sox had. But Boggs had a hamstring tear so severe that the Red Sox team physician was able to place his thumb through it. Rosenthal offers nothing to support his silly carping that Boggs' injury was less debilitating than those which sidelined three of his teammates during the same series...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sox | 10/11/1986 | See Source »

...current Holy Cross fullback Tom Kelleher, attempting to fill the shoes of Gill "The Thrill" Fenerty will be like Tom Thumb trying to fill the shoes of the Jolly Green Giant...

Author: By Geoffrey Simon, | Title: Gridders, Crusaders Cross Paths Today | 9/27/1986 | See Source »

...thorough enough to impress with footnotes in the original Sanskrit. Neither a bullshit artist, a workaholic, nor a genius, the soul in this circle sees his papers and exams as an endless string of B-plusses, while the operators one floor up in GPA heaven thumb their noses and jangle their Phi Beta Kappa keys at the brighter minds below...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: Guide to Freshman Hell | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

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