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...despised people for their common-looking faces and the careless way they spoke. Seeing them eat made him sick. He could not bear to watch anyone eat, he said. And there were sights just as bad--watching people blow their nose, hearing them laugh, seeing their underwear on a clothesline...

Author: By David M. Rosenfeld, | Title: Character Assassination | 4/29/1983 | See Source »

...most of the students had been roused from their beds appearing in the courtyard in dress varying from underwear to tuxedos. Residents were hustled into the Eliot House dining room, where they waited thirty minutes while Harvard Police checked the building for bombs...

Author: By Jesse M. Fried, | Title: Bomb Scare Raises Safety Questions | 4/19/1983 | See Source »

...oysters and getting them back to the surface are a bit more complicated. With Frisky fast to a buoy, Brown, already bundled against the chill in a sweater, a wool shirt and a quilted vest, suits up for work in rubber boots and oilskins. Sprague strips to his underwear, then wriggles into a bright red neoprene wet suit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Maryland: Going Deep for Oysters | 3/28/1983 | See Source »

Basketball is a most intimate game. Observing a baseball or football player from a distance, the first impression of color might be the color of his uniform. But basketball players are running around in their underwear, and the spectators are close enough to see the players' beards dripping sweat. Since a giant black center is no novelty, something about Ewing must be particularly affecting. "He looks like a big, bad, mean guy," says John Thompson, his coach. "Actually he's a big, quiet, sensitive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Banner Year for Meanness | 3/14/1983 | See Source »

...love with more than a dozen previous books. For The Baby Uggs Are Hatching (Greenwillow; $9.50) he adds a dash of Lear to Jack Prelutsky's hilarious nonsense verse about the Sneepies ("... lying in a pile,/ are still and silent all the while./ They stay beside my underwear .../ I wonder why they like it there."), the Smasheroo, the Dreary Dreeze, the Flotterzott and other beings unmentioned by zoologists but familiar to any child in a darkened room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Short Shelf of Tall Tales | 12/20/1982 | See Source »

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