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...some peanut butter at one of the two convenience stores, mail a postcard at the South of the Border post office. It's dark now, and not many people are left around, so I wander the streets and reflect. Amigoland is absolutely deserted, the Mini-Mex golf course dark as night. So this is America, very imaginative, very progressive, and very wealthy. A little grease and pavement, but there's the sweet smell of exhaust in the air and fun all around. Sombrero towers; steak rooms; fireworks; mini gold; barrooms; postcards; ice cream; swimming pools. I feel at home here...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: 18 Hours South of the Border | 6/26/1981 | See Source »

...solid team player. There's no danger that he'll wander off freelance, like Stockman has a tendency to do. That gives him added clout in the White House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Marine Has Landed | 6/22/1981 | See Source »

...blinded slaves populate the folklore of Isle des Chevaliers alongside other tales of horsemen and moaning women who wander through the forest. Morrison echoes the whispers of centuries-old legends in her phrases, animating the landscape and infusing each piece of nature with a soul...

Author: By Eve M. Troutt, | Title: Ghosts in Black | 4/14/1981 | See Source »

...Munich, artists go to the Cafe Grossenvahn. So do the musicians, poets, actors, homosexuals, and foreigners. The regulars all know each other, and people wander from table to table greeting friends. Everyone discusses art-art and politics, art and money, art and friendship. Towering above the smoke and the wooden tables, a papier-mache man with chicken-wire hands stares at people as they walk in. The man wears black clothes and one gold carring. One of the waiters built...

Author: By Sarah L. Mcvity, | Title: A Portrait of the Art Student | 3/17/1981 | See Source »

Most immediately, the netmen have a chance to make the West Coast big boys sit up and take notice that Harvard tennis has come of age. But ask any member of the team and his thoughts will wander homeward. He will reply simply and without hesitation, "Beat Princeton...

Author: By Janie Smith, | Title: Netmen Psyched for California Slate | 3/17/1981 | See Source »

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