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...signs on the street lamps said, "Tow Zone. No Stopping Any Time." So RTLÃept walking. The two miles turned into one and a half and then into one. We turned off Beacon Street onto Kenmore, Hereford, and finally, Bolyston. The crowds were still in the stands, cheering, almost four hours after the race had been won. I stepped across the finish line with an unofficial time of seven hours, fifty-nine minutes, thirty seconds...

Author: By William H. Bachman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: WALK-DO NOT RUN | 4/24/1992 | See Source »

...Officers were called to 10 DeWolfe St. on Saturday because of loud music. The officers had returned tow additional times before the party ended...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police Log | 2/27/1992 | See Source »

...Oooo-ow, Mom!" Most of us know that despairing wail, the cry of offspring on whom a parent has inadvertently visited heartrending shame: when we have overdressed or underdressed for some public outing with the kids in tow or cracked a dumb joke or otherwise called unwarranted attention to ourselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unsentimental Educations | 2/24/1992 | See Source »

...puzzle is how two countries so intertwined can be so frequently at odds. Ever since President George Bush showed up in Tokyo last month with a group of vituperative business leaders in tow, the U.S. and Japan have once again been sniping at each other. And once again the ambiguous mix of Japanese attitudes toward the U.S. has been brought to the surface. In the mind of Japan, the superpower on the other side of the Pacific is both an object of respect and envy, of emulation and repulsion, of gratitude and contempt. Despite the years of wrangling between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America in the Mind of Japan | 2/10/1992 | See Source »

...gets better, is a mildly depressed, mildly humorous man named Mack (Kevin Kline). The process that will force him to higher consciousness begins when his car breaks down in a bad neighborhood and his life is threatened by a menacing gang, then saved by Simon (Danny Glover), a lonely tow-truck operator. The episode is Mack's first lesson in just how tenuous our grip on normality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Santa Leaves a Six-Pack | 12/30/1991 | See Source »

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