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...spent the game's last few, beautifully tense minutes in the dugout. Only then, as he watched reliever Alejandro Pena flirt with catastrophe, did Avery look his age and less. Shivering under a black coverall in the Halloween weather, he peeked out like an anxious trick- or-treater in a Batman cape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Last Shall Be First | 10/28/1991 | See Source »

...sending more than 3000 troops to Honduras this week, ostensibly in defense of democracy, Ronald Reagan is letting an anachronism stalk the earth. A trick-or-treater in March. The ghost of a war we thought we had buried...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Ding-Dong Dead | 3/19/1988 | See Source »

...realizing the financial problems of the non-profit Theatre Company of Boston, one can sympathetically accept the limitations of Mary Shepley's monotonously simple, cheezy costumes. It's a bit harder, however, to dismiss some lousy makeup work, most apparent when Karlen enters looking more like a trick-or-treater than a battered Caligula...

Author: By Paul Williams, | Title: Caligula | 11/7/1964 | See Source »

...believer in the inevitable superiority of college graduates, Treasurer Kennedy forthwith appointed his brother, James A. (for Austin) Kennedy, to the $5,780-a-year post of third deputy treasurer. But the Governor's Council unanimously refused to approve brother Jim, a steel heat treater at the Boston Navy Yard who left school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MASSACHUSETTS: Geniuses All | 3/14/1955 | See Source »

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