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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...village, thanks to the mischief of its inhabitants and their attendant demons. An aspiring young author passes his time in Warsaw visiting the Yiddish Writers' Club and storing up everything he hears and does. An older incarnation of the same man, expatriated from Poland and living on Manhattan's Upper West Side, submits willingly to readers and strangers who come to his door bearing strange tales. From these premises, Singer continues to construct an apparently inexhaustible supply of variations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Din of Demanding Voices | 5/2/1988 | See Source »

...first act, the characters are members of a supposedly repressed 1880s British family in colonial Africa. The Big Joke, I suppose, is the shameless promiscuity behind the family's stiff-upper-lip facade. So what? Imperialist Victorians aren't exactly a daring target for satire. They are no harder to make fun of than, say, 1980s yuppies...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: Storm and Drag | 4/29/1988 | See Source »

Hammond offers a theory about the average hockey family, a middle- to upper-middle class family. The family supports his son by enrolling him in a private school, where the quality of hockey is the best around. After spending a substantial amount of money on the son's high-school experience as a hockey player, the question of which college to attend becomes a financial problem...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Ivy League Hockey: A Long and Winding Road | 4/28/1988 | See Source »

...that the AI's inclusion of the SAT scores are unfair to poorer students who cannot take test-taking classes to improve their SAT scores. Because of this bias against the poorer Blacks, Cingiser says that many of the Black student-athletes in the Ivy League come from the upper end of the socio-economic spectrum...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: Ivy League Basketball: A Shooting Star | 4/27/1988 | See Source »

...other goal sequence, Pennoyer looked like he was going to follow in follow defender Gates' footprints as he sprinted across the midfield line straight towards the cage. As he approached the net, Pennoyer dumped the ball off to Raymond, who pegged the upper corner...

Author: By Nicholas N. Branca, | Title: Laxmen Tame Tigers, Capture 15-5 Victory | 4/25/1988 | See Source »

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