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When he was 13, Barry Manilow got a new stepfather, an Irish-American truck driver who brought with him a stack of Broadway albums. The Brooklyn teenager listened over and over again to musicals like The King and I and Kismet, and since he couldn't afford a Broadway ticket, he dreamed up his own narratives to go with the songs. Says Manilow: "I think my story was better than the Fiddler on the Roof I eventually...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: THE NEW SONDHEIMS? | 11/10/1997 | See Source »

Hickey was driving home on the Mystic Valley Parkway, which is northwest of Cambridge, at about 3 a.m., when a truck swerved into his lane after speeding off an exit ramp, Adams House Superintendent William B. Long said. The force knocked Hickey's car off the highway and into a tree...

Author: By Rosalind S. Helderman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Adams' Beloved Hickey Injured In Car Accident | 11/6/1997 | See Source »

...These are not good old boys driving a pickup truck with a gun rack," he says. "Some are, but some are young kids who are very technologically savvy. Some are white middle-class Americans who ascribe to a prenicious point of view. Some are very educated and well...

Author: By Elizabeth S. Zuckerman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Library Assistant Makes Hobby of Tracking Internet Hate Speech | 11/6/1997 | See Source »

After a final breakfast featuring cheese omlettes with Tasty employees, the owners and their friends, the restaurant equipment was hauled away in a truck in the early afternoon. White signs were plastered on the windows announcing their temporary roosting place...

Author: By Jennifer . Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Tasty Closes, But May Move | 11/3/1997 | See Source »

...crew members were going to save their station and perhaps themselves, they would have to get moving fast. Though the thrusters on Mir were powerless to make the sweeping maneuver necessary to orient the solar panels, the thrusters on the Soyuz might not be. Like a pickup truck pushing a tractor trailer, the little lifeboat just might be able to nudge the mammoth Mir far enough for its panels to catch a shaft of sunlight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A BAD DAY IN SPACE | 11/3/1997 | See Source »

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