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...haven't gotten to the really boring part yet," Jane adds. After several weeks of analyzing, she was promoted to sharpening pencils--3500 Number Twos, to be exact. (Did you ever wonder who sharpened all those pencils for your standardized tests? Now you know.) Jane says the pencils were the most boring part of the summer, at least until she realized "you can sharpen pencils and read Lady Chatterley's Lover at the same time...After that I listened to the Grateful Dead because my boss went on vacation...

Author: By Sophia A. Van wingerden, | Title: How I Didn't Spend My Summer Vacation | 9/25/1987 | See Source »

...child conventions on which the typical sci-fi robot is modeled. But Malkovich informs and energizes his performance with the deadpan bravery, the relentless will, the invincible ignorance and the infinite need to give and receive love that all parents observe as their offspring pass through the infamously terrible twos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Making Mr. Right | 4/13/1987 | See Source »

...Regan and his deputy Dennis Thomas, the new press spokesman Marlin Fitzwater and Pollster Richard Wirthlin. They regulate Reagan's energies, shape his moods, provide his information, schedule his forays beyond the comforting tranquillity of the Oval Office. They are not a formal body. Mostly they cluster in twos or threes, but they are always linked minute by minute through the phones. It is a singular power mechanism, twisted by its own internal stress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: The Thousand and One Arrows | 3/2/1987 | See Source »

...novel The Terrible Twos...

Author: By Maia E. Harris, | Title: SCRUTINY | 2/26/1987 | See Source »

...gimme 19-ft., 9-in. three-point shot is no doubt partially responsible for the scoring surge, but turn all the Crimson's three-pointers into twos, and Harvard is still averaging 81.7 points per game, far up from the 60.7 Harvard managed last year...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: The Runnin' Crimson | 1/7/1987 | See Source »

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