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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...party in Denver was small, just Sammy and Rick and Julie and Dina. Deena, said Dina. They went to a drive-in. This is my first time, said Sammy, and he almost dropped the speaker out the window. None of them liked beer so they brought wine. When the movie ended, Rick was asleep in Julie's lap in the back seat. Sammy liked the movie. They went to Julie's house and watched TV but they had finished the wine and the wine had finished Rick and no one wanted to sleep more than Julia so Sammy and Dina...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: Postcards | 3/15/1980 | See Source »

Finally, on the last day of school, you made your move. You got on the bus, saw her sitting in a window seat, and with a marvelous display of sixth-grade cool plunked yourself down beside her. Suddenly, as you turned toward her, she stood up in a rustle of papers and streamers, squeezed past you into the aisle and she was gone. Off to another seat, shooting scorning stares at your with her babbling, fifth-grade friends...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Of Ice and Men | 3/12/1980 | See Source »

...were in fact students from our national university (Universidad de San Carlos) who, on this and other occasions, have sought to further their own political objectives by cynically exploiting campesino grievances. In panic or by design, one of the occupiers threw an incendiary device that ricocheted off a metal window grille, thereby engulfing the room in flames. The ensuing deaths were caused by burning or suffocation, not by police bullets. Who murdered whom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 10, 1980 | 3/10/1980 | See Source »

ALBERT INNAURATO'S Gemini begins with a deafening blast of construction, a counter-blast of Maria Callas and a volley of shrieks and screams. The protagonist, Francis Geminiani, a Harvard junior back home in Philadelphia for the summer, leans out his second-story window, plants a speaker on the sill in a grand gesture of defiance, and blares an opera record to combat the 7 a.m. assault. This awakens his obese next-door neighbor, Bunny Weinberger, who throws open her second-story window and screeches at him to "turn off that shitty music." Besides, she yells, one of those workers...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Smashing the Sidewalk | 3/6/1980 | See Source »

...marriages fail, and I know that working just for the sake of working doesn't help. What really does help is the fact that I don't mind being alone. I really don't mind. I'm quite happy to sit here and look out the window...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Sellers Strikes Again | 3/3/1980 | See Source »

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