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...chance for an interception. The Cadets didn't bother to throw the ball. All they did was run, run, run. The Crimson's only hope was to hold Army at the line. But that was like trying to hold back a tank...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, | Title: Cadets Rumble Through Crimson, 56-28 | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

...remember that I was not born in a Philadelphia house with 20- foot ceilings but began life as the child of Russian Jews from New Jersey." He had earned his mansion, plus his Wasp wife Deirdre and several million dollars, by founding the Mnemosyne Institute, an upscale think tank designed to help government and corporate bigwigs improve their powers of recall: "As I used to say to clients, 'Memory is life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Child of The New World | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

Moreover, Parker's Marlowe can seem like an anachronism in search of a time frame. He drinks rye, smokes Camels and charges only $100 a day plus expenses. But there are contemporary touches. Women wear tank tops and police uniforms, and pornography has gone public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Capering | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

...Duff to bed, which was something Wylie liked to do herself, and Taylor read Duff and me a paper he was writing on weak gravity, in a room that was dark except for the yellow glow of a table lamp and the purple glow of the fish tank. He made it funny, choosing neighborhood and household examples for anything technical. "Weak gravity is what keeps your dreams inside your head so they don't go flying out," he said. "It's what keeps Jase and Duff together," he said, smiling sweetly, "so they...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: Weak Gravity in America | 9/23/1989 | See Source »

...didn't have our talk. We didn't have to. Fish rippled their phosphorescent stripes inside the tank. The water gurgled, always clean, always warm...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: Weak Gravity in America | 9/23/1989 | See Source »

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