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...first day, the Witches carried theirboxes and bags, a steamer trunk, a refrigerator,three stereos and a computer up five flights ofstairs and subsequently collapsed on the barepreviously stained mattresses of their new room.On the second day the Witches swept the floor andwashed the woodwork and windows. On the third day,the Witches registered for classes and orderedyard upon yard of heavy plastic sheeting. On thefourth day, sheeting and twelve bags of premiumsoil was delivered to the Witches by sweating,cursing delivery people whom they tipped heavily.On the fifth day, the Witches moved all of thefurniture out of the living...

Author: By Jenny LYN Bader, | Title: Superstition | 10/11/1989 | See Source »

...course. There is enough room in its midget trunk for two tennis rackets and one can of balls. Is it a yupmobile? A delicate question, but the answer is not really. Yuppies lack a sense of nonsense. They buy BMW or Saab Turbo convertibles, ragtop versions of sedans that are irreproachably expensive and slightly stodgy. If you must pick up your elderly aunt, her Doberman and her scuba gear at the airport, you can manage it in one of these. In the Miata...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Miatific Bliss in Five Gears | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

...protected, he believed, by his marriage to a Lebanese woman and his conversion to Islam in 1985. Nonetheless, as he left his campus apartment on Sept. 12, the Norristown, Pa., native was ambushed by four gunmen of the Shi'ite Revolutionary Justice Organization, pistol-whipped and loaded into the trunk of a car. He was the second American to be abducted in Lebanon that week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Unlikely Target | 8/14/1989 | See Source »

...much happens during these 70 sweetly silly minutes: pratfalls and swan dives, break dancers accosted, a girl lost and maybe won. Some technology- ( inspired images are new -- Irwin silently screams from inside a TV until someone vacuums up his video image and expels it into an old trunk, from which the lanky actor unfolds -- but the show owes a lot to Chaplin and Harpo, Jacques Tati and Marcel Marceau. Still, they are the people to copy, and Irwin surely has the gift...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Bowing Out with a Flourish | 5/15/1989 | See Source »

...back to Tambov, our hosts accompanied us to the outskirts of Uvarovo, where our two-car convoy pulled over so we could say one last goodbye. All was darkness, except for the expanse of snow caught in the headlights. With lightning speed, plates of foods materialized on the closed trunk of one of the cars. A bottle of vodka appeared. The occasion seemed to demand a humorous toast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAMBOV: PERESTROIKA IN THE PROVINCES | 4/10/1989 | See Source »

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