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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dead Heads earn gas money to rattle from concert to concert by selling each other T shirts, and this activity took place in a small park near the auditorium. No camping was allowed, but neither the Heads nor the local police considered all-night snoozing on the park's wooden benches to be camping. (Dead Heads, who are apolitical, do not seem to enrage police as hippies did.) By the time the midday sun had warmed the bones of the park-bench bivouackers, the park had become a street fair. T shirts were on sale, decorated with tie-dyed spiral...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In California: the Dead Live On | 2/11/1985 | See Source »

...intersession Friday, and a line twenty strong advances by two's and three's down concrete steps and into the basement of a medium-sized wooden building. Though half of Harvard is gone for the weekend, you wouldn't know it from the crowds at the Piccadilly Filly...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: Boozing and Cruising at the Filly | 2/1/1985 | See Source »

...SITTING ON a wooden bench outside a T station the other day. Like most wooden benches outside T stations (those monolithic expressions of suburban alienation) this one was spattered with graffiti. I've always liked graffiti, particularly in the carrels in Lamont when I've got a final the next morning. So I passed my wait by reading the graffiti on this particular bench...

Author: By Peter J. Howe, | Title: Life on the Bench | 1/31/1985 | See Source »

Transporting the flowers from Dresden was a delicate process. Each model was mounted on cardboard and secured with wire. It was the placed in a cardboard box that was well-padded with tissue paper. Workers placed these containers in large wooden boxes padded with tissue which was then wrapped in burlap. The resulting containers were more than wrapped in burlap. The resulting containers were more than five feet tall...

Author: By Valerie G. Scoon, | Title: Glass Flowers Show Mastery of Art, Science | 12/14/1984 | See Source »

...setting was historically apt. Until the Civil War, the ornate and intimate Old Senate Chamber, its dark wooden desks arranged in semicircles, rang with the spirited oratory of Daniel Webster, Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun. Last week, when the Senate's 53 Republicans gathered in the museum-like room to elect their leader for the next two years, the forensics were apparently no less rousing. Kansan Robert Dole claimed to be thoroughly persuaded by the speech his nominator, John Danforth of Missouri, made on his behalf. "It was so impressive," Dole quipped, "that I ended up voting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Declaration of Independence | 12/10/1984 | See Source »

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