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...strangers had to fight off the urge to smack him," and a baby "who hadn't the slightest notion of what a father was," she arrives exhausted at her Hemlock Street dream house. Confronted by a lawn grown weedy, a kitchen reeking of rotten garbage, and a stopped-up toilet, she ignores all the signs of suburban hell and calls to Billy, "Never mind the way it is now. Think about the way it's going to look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Life On Hemlock Street | 8/6/1990 | See Source »

With nowhere else to go, hundreds of evicted Israelis have erected small tent cities in a dozen sites around the country. The canvas tents are often furnished with little more than mattresses and sleeping bags, and toilet facilities are haphazard. The squatters' resentment is increasing along with their number. Last week near Tel Aviv, 70 of the homeless barricaded themselves on a roof, hurled gasoline bombs at the street and threatened mass suicide until Minister of Housing Ariel Sharon promised to listen to their demands and pay a visit to their tent city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel There's No Place Like Home | 7/30/1990 | See Source »

...bulb hanging in the corridor. Thin rubber mattresses with small gray blankets cover the 10-ft. by 13-ft. concrete floor, and the air reeks of sweat. There are no personal effects, no furniture, only a small jar of water and a big plastic can that alternates as a toilet and a washbasin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East Human Pawns in a Sordid Game | 7/16/1990 | See Source »

...fewer and the service spottier. The food may be microwaved mediocrity. In the aging coaches, the decor runs to implausible orange and tepid yellows, the odor is museum quality. A $274 sleeping compartment on Amtrak's Cardinal, from Chicago to New York, manages ingeniously -- and torturously -- to cram sink, toilet, passenger seat, closet, water cooler, trash can, storage compartment and shoe locker into a space about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: What A Way To Go | 7/16/1990 | See Source »

...loans, put the flamboyant developer on a short leash. Trump agreed to submit his business decisions to the banks for review and promised to hire a chief financial officer to scrutinize the Trump Organization, which manages his holdings. "Trump won't have to get permission to go to the toilet, but on anything else he'll have to ask the banks," quipped a Wall Street expert familiar with the deal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking Away His Credit Cards | 7/9/1990 | See Source »

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