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...Celtics, playing without center Robert Parish, who was suspended for slugging Detroit's Bill Laimbeer in Game 5, and without Coach K.C. Jones, who was attending his mother's funeral in California, appeared to tire in the fourth period...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pistons Push Celtics to Game 7 | 5/29/1987 | See Source »

There were four of them last week from Capitol Hill gathered with Ronald Reagan in the morning brightness of the Oval Office. They were, in the distinctive patois of one participant, "trying to figure out how to keep the Democrats from wrapping a tire iron around our necks" during the budget struggle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Giving Normalcy a Good Name | 5/11/1987 | See Source »

...took an editorial mop to the mess, scrubbing with strokes so rigorous that they laid tire tracks of emotional trauma across the metaphysical entity that served as a literary cipher for my soul...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: Brain-Addled Air Junkies | 4/30/1987 | See Source »

Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam's Spanish Fly picks up where Janet left off. As listeners tire of the now overexposed and no longer progressive Jam/Lewis beat, Full Force has broken new ground on `urban' radio by surrounding Lisa Lisa with a clever, funky, and even historical mixture of all that's hot in Black music today. Lisa Lisa maintains Janet's rigid stance of female power in the midst of a musical melange of elements from 50s streetcorner doo-wop to hot Miami rhythms, with even a touch of gospel-style chorus tossed in for flavor...

Author: By Jeff P. Meier, | Title: Spanish Fly-girl | 4/30/1987 | See Source »

...only impossible to describe, but also so large and heavy that I had to drag it around by my foot as I traipsed through the store. This was behavior I had only seen at gas stations where they give you a men's room key attached to a spare tire to prevent you from absconding with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: V-66, Keys Tied to Tires, and the Joy of Shopping | 4/14/1987 | See Source »

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