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There's no escaping anality; Cambridge also seems full of these types. The bank I frequent has signals at each window that light up and ring gently when the tellers are ready for the next customer. Recently, I was at the window next to the one which is directly at the head of the line. The teller there politely asked the person in front if he could help...

Author: By John J. Murphy, | Title: A Freudian Interpretation of Harvard Life | 3/3/1988 | See Source »

Visitors to the Adams House Junior Common Room will have a window on a different world this week during a special exhibition of photos of children in a local housing project...

Author: By Suzanne F. Nossel, | Title: Film Tutor Shows Photos In Adams Common Room | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

...apparently stoned Keith Richards dropping a television from his hotel window for kicks...

Author: By Will Meyerhofer, | Title: Galled Stones | 2/26/1988 | See Source »

...during the day-long events, cock-fighting isn't all that goes on at a cockpit. The arena, which resembles an American boxing stadium, comes wildly alive during the five-minute betting interval before each fight. Unlike at the track, where betting simply involves buying a ticket at a window, placing a bet at a cockpit requires complicated hand signals and lots of shouting and screaming. Bets are set through informal bookies, who earn a healthy commission...

Author: By Eugene L. Jhong, | Title: Cock-Fighting in the Philippines | 2/22/1988 | See Source »

...apartment and search for the love who awaited him there. Exactly what she looked like he could not say at the time. She was exquisitely beautiful, he was certain of that: gentle and intelligent, quiet, stubborn, funny, kind. Sometimes he imagined that he would swoop from his window into the park like a glider, landing gracefully, noiselessly before her. Off they would fly together, eventually to marry. But after a while he would leave her to test new waters, and she would write her life upon a loom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Captain Midlife Sends a Valentine | 2/15/1988 | See Source »

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