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...solidarity in the class of 1997 by making the Union more attractive to the locationally challenged. They are also trying to preserve the quality of life in the Quad houses by reducing the influx of first-years; there is nothing worse than seeing the last Chickwich taken by a cherub-faced kid talking about how excited he is to take his first college exam...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Quad Dining Policy Discriminates | 2/3/1994 | See Source »

Fantasies seep into facts. Entertainment and journalism drift back and forth across the borders. The bicameral arrangement of culture and politics dissolves. The baby of the (nonexistent) Murphy Brown flies out of its cradle and hovers like an illicit pink cherub over the American presidential succession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Folklore in a Box | 9/21/1992 | See Source »

...have to service everyone out there or else they will isolate you." Eighty-five percent of Street Beat's clients are female; some have up to 20 clients a night. "The girls out here work; they buy drugs; they sleep; they are like robots," says Mary, 31, a cherub-faced woman who walks the streets in order to support her own and her mother's crack habit. Most work for very little money. "Sometimes they go for a trick for $2 for a hit of crack because they are hurting," says Daniel Zayas, 32, Street Beat field supervisor. And then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York City A Beacon On Lonely Street | 12/17/1990 | See Source »

...news show managed to make a sad private mystery into something of a game. As a fat cherub wiggled his wings in a corner of the screen, the telltale questions flew. Does he or she come home smelling of perfume or alcohol? Want too much or too little sex? -- whatever that means. Spend more time than usual at work? Finally, have you recently been found to have an STD (sexually transmitted disease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TV: I'M Working Late Tonight, Dear | 11/19/1990 | See Source »

Babyland -- that's what the gravedigger called it. Then he pointed to the far side of Houston's Hollywood Cemetery, where a sea of tombstones gives way to a grassy hillside. A dainty marble cherub, its head severed at the neck by vandals, guards the spot. Surrounding the lifeless angel are scores of infants' graves, most with modest plaques, one raising a silent protest: SO SMALL, SO SWEET, SO SOON...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Houston, Texas So Small, So Sweet, So Soon | 3/26/1990 | See Source »

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