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...bird wet by accident, so his feathers didn't look nice," she said. "They started falling out, so he was more of a bald bird...

Author: By Rosalind S. Helderman, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Roadkill Collector Appears On TV | 10/31/1997 | See Source »

...tape and wet advertisements still clung persistently to every available surface on the formidable facade of Thayer gate...

Author: By Christopher T. Boyd, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: College Creates Sandwich Boards to Combat Thayer Gate Postering | 10/27/1997 | See Source »

...first the sheriff's deputies lobbed a tear-gas canister into the house. But Allen was prepared. The former nurse had apparently covered herself with petroleum jelly and a wet towel to prevent the skin irritation that comes with the gas. Then they tried to stun Allen by firing some beanbag-like projectiles at her, but she was ready for that too, having armored herself in several layers of clothing. The gathering crowd of militiamen stand in awe and see her expertise as proof of a survivalist sensibility. Says Glad Hall, president of the Southern Illinois Patriots League...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STANDOFF AT ROBY RIDGE | 10/27/1997 | See Source »

...JENNY MCCARTHY--the words trashy, vacuous and semitalented come swiftly to mind--one certainly can't accuse her of taking herself too seriously or being coy. In her new book, Jen-X (for which she was reportedly paid more than $1 million), McCarthy confesses with unstarlike candor that she wet her bed until she was seven, spread a rumor that a girl at her school was a lesbian and peed in a guy's bed after a drunken date. Also that her breasts are fake and she dropped out of college after a petty theft. And, scariest of all, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 20, 1997 | 10/20/1997 | See Source »

...that these departures are supposed to orient Turnbull's life and ever-present death in the greater span of history--to connect his existence with others' in some all-encompassing cyclic understanding. In comparison with the use of imagination in such classic Updike as The Centaur, however, these elderly wet dreams seem positively puerile...

Author: By Adriane N. Giebel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Death, Decay, Decline | 10/17/1997 | See Source »

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