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...remarkably. "I had a hook," he says. "I hated it. They let me discard it." They let him dream of anything. "Growing up, I always pictured myself as a baseball player, but I can't remember how many hands I had in my dreams. I never thought to myself, 'Wow, I only have one hand. Can I eat with a certain fork?' I just did things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Dreaming The Big Dreams | 3/20/1989 | See Source »

...first time I hit the pipe, I thought, 'Wow! Home run!' " says Rodgers, a beautiful but hardened 29-year-old former dealer who is pregnant with her eighth child. Beneath her gold-tinged curls, a small metal plate covers a hole smashed in her skull with a board swung by an angry boyfriend. Her dark eyes glitter when she speaks of crack. Then she looks weary, confused and angry. "When I came here, I figured I'd get a place to sleep and some food, and then split and get an abortion and get high once in a while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mandela House: A Hand and a Home For Pregnant Addicts | 2/27/1989 | See Source »

...artists from Sendak to Nicola Bayley have given stature to such street doggerel as "Once there was a little boy,/ He lived in his skin;/ When he pops out,/ You may pop in" and George Bernard Shaw's effort for the young, presented at age 93: "Dumpitydoodledum big bow wow/ Dumpitydoodledum dandy!" Not exactly Dr. Seuss, but, as young people know, many a satisfying afternoon can be spent with leftovers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Child's Garden of Lore And Laughter | 12/12/1988 | See Source »

...goals which do not satisfy, nor were they intended to satsify, the needs of the lesbian and bisexual women's community at Harvard. As a separate issue, then, the GLSA's expanding membership has recognized the need for an expressly lesbian and bisexual women's group and has created "WOW" (Women-Oriented Women). Kelly M. Dermody '89-'90 Co-director, Contact Co-chair, GLSA

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GLSA | 10/26/1988 | See Source »

...Wow. I bet that's what sex must be like." --Princeton junior inside center Nick Franklin said after at least eight different Tiger rugby players touched the ball before Bob Lehmy scored a try en route to a 30-8 win over Lafayette...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Spikers Set to Change Ways | 10/14/1988 | See Source »

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