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...plastic cup under his heel, crumples his picture and throws it into the trash can. Lori stares at him. He runs toward Ralphy and slaps Ralphy's self-portrait out of his hand. He laughs, slams the door to the room from the inside. As the other children slip on their jackets, Michael stands at the wall, looks everyone over and turns out the lights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Christmas Story | 12/30/1985 | See Source »

Albright dashed to the streetcar, flung his long frame on board and beat the courier to the White House, where Legislative Clerk Maurice Latta was also moved by his enthusiasm and promised to slip the bill into the President's night papers and even try to rescue the pen used in signing. A few hours later, Albright picked up a phone and heard the magic words: "The President signed the bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Present At the Preservation | 12/23/1985 | See Source »

...second objection comes in response to a dart game (a real one with metal points not felt tips) listed as for "ages 5 and up." To solve this obvious slip in judgement, I propose that the man who determined that age guideline should stand underneath the dart board while a randomly picked five-year-old shoots for bullseyes. It's stuff like this that makes me into a grinch...

Author: By Jeff Chase, | Title: Kids' Stuff | 12/12/1985 | See Source »

...clothes and accessories reportedly cost about $2,500 a week. For trips abroad she plots her outfitting like a general drawing up plans for battle, studying the slick fashion magazines, then huddling with favorite designers. She also practices a kind of guerrilla shopping. Dressed in jeans, she will slip out of the palace by 10, driving her red Ford Sierra with the obligatory detective next to her, and head for a favorite boutique for a quick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Prince and His Princess Arrive: Charles and Di | 11/11/1985 | See Source »

...teams slip-slided their way to a scoreless first half in which UMass outshot the visitors 9-5. Harvard had perhaps the best scoring opportunity of the period when a Nikhil Singh shot hit the UMass crossbar late in the half...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: Minutemen Snap MenBooters' Win Streak | 11/7/1985 | See Source »

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