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Article: August Is the Cruelest Month; How do we fear it? Let us count the ways: traffic jams, skin cancer, hairy backs, nautical decor, sea creatures and disappearing therapists
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- August 2, 1987
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August is a hateful month. A month of death and boredom and heat
and reruns. The tunnel at the end of the light. If August were a
disease, it would be incurable. If it were a television show, it
would be hosted by Geraldo Rivera. And then canceled.
Why is August so frightening, you say, sitting in your Adirondack
chair sipping a Perrier Lite and waiting for the mesquite in your
Weber to smoke? I suppose you've been too mellow to dwell on all the
horrible things that have occurred in this month. This cursed month.
This month without pity.
Think about it. It's such an intense month, when it's supposed
to be such a vapid one. Nothing happens in August, right? Wrong.
Billed as a restful ...
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Article: NOT MUCH TO FEAR
Jerusalem Post;
August 27, 1996 ;
189 words
......In The Jerusalem Post of August 14, Internal Security Minister...to my sorrow, he doesn't fear the police or anyone else...is that there is not much to fear. The Israeli driver has learned...continue to have nothing to fear. RONALD KRONISH, Jerusalem...
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