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...help her wake up on time," he recalls, "and all of a sudden she breaks down crying." It seems that under the nose of her allegedly crank-addicted mother, the girl had been raped repeatedly by a teenage relative, a sadistic sort given to dousing his hands in fingernail-polish remover, setting them aflame and then blowing out the fire before he was burned. He warned the girl that he would ignite her if she spoke out. Morales tells of another girl, 11, whose meth-crazed mother prostituted her for a onetime windfall of $360. The girl thought this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crank | 6/22/1998 | See Source »

...weekend is Princeton on Saturday. If you don't have tix now, you probably won't get any. The Tigers have had a large Sports Illustrated article dedicated to them, a 1st place vote in the AP poll, and an overall No. 11 ranking nationally. They were a fingernail away from toppling top-rated North Carolina in Chapel Hill, and that remains their sole loss of the season...

Author: By Lev F. Gerlovin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson has plenty to worry about against Penn, 11th ranked Princeton | 2/6/1998 | See Source »

...amazed to find myself, a 65-year-old female, in agreement with a man who wears green fingernail polish, a feather boa and a skirt. But yes, dude; as weirdly dressed drummer Traci Michaelz said, It is all about control. Wake up, America! LOIS R. TAYLOR Widefield, Colo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 2, 1998 | 2/2/1998 | See Source »

...into the faded glory of Hollywood, which started everyone smoking in the first place. The Frolic Room, where the walls have emphysema, is smokeless. Traci Michaelz, a drummer with the Peppermint Creeps, goes outside to smoke and says, "This is all about control, dude." You notice that his green fingernail polish matches neither his feather boa nor his skirt, and you know things change only for the worse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prohibition All Over Again | 1/12/1998 | See Source »

...being. Shoes track dirt into the dorm room and there is no reining them in. I find myself sharing cups and utensils with people I have known only for a span of months. Three years of this nerve-wracking activity and I am hanging on by a neatly-trimmed fingernail. What can I do to fight the power? I feel vulnerable for the first time. And I hate...

Author: By Bonnie Tsui, | Title: BrushWorks | 11/26/1997 | See Source »

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