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...Winthrop House junior arrested earlier this month for posting handbills on a lamppost said yesterday that she may file a complaint against the arresting officer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Undergrad May Charge False Arrest | 10/30/1984 | See Source »

...because I was Turkish," said Nilguen. That incident occurred a year ago. More recently, Nilguen's mother Melahab, 39, was accosted in the street by a German youth waving a wooden club and shouting obscenities about foreigners. "He suddenly jumped out from behind a lamppost and threatened me with the stick," she recalls. "He was swearing and saying, 'Get out of Berlin, dirty foreigner. Go back to where you came from!' I was very frightened, but a German factory colleague stood up to him and told him to clear out or she would call the police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Turks in Germany: They Want Us Out: | 2/6/1984 | See Source »

...emetic To save bucks on brewskis and time with the medic. Then what to our wandering eyes should appear But a miniature sleigh with a shitload of beer. Down Molson, down Heinie, down Miller and more; Up Beckski, up Strohski, all over the floor. Watch out for that lamppost--hold tight to the wall-- Now stagger off, stagger off, stagger...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Seasonal Odyssey | 12/16/1983 | See Source »

...characters' moods even as they assert the environmental imperative. Coppola has staged his scenes in long, sensuous takes. A single shot may comprise several scenes, several planes of action and setting, while the camera glides around the ordinary hero and heroine like the young Astaire around a lamppost. They are ordinary indeed. As played by Teri Garr, Frannie is a Shirley MacLaine gamine minus the cutes and the smarts and the go-get-'em will. Her fella, Hank (Frederic Forrest), who works in an automobile graveyard, is just as lackluster. Sitting at the breakfast table with his beer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Surrendering to the Big Dream | 1/25/1982 | See Source »

ATOMIC POWER? NO, THANK YOU. Hardly a telephone pole or lamppost was left unpostered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWEDEN: Yes, Thanks to Nuclear Power | 4/7/1980 | See Source »

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