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That bashed artifact bounces repeatedly in the rest of Underworld, eventually coming to rest in the possession of Nick Shay, an executive with a waste-management firm in Phoenix, Ariz., who pays $34,500 to a New Jersey memorabilia dealer named Marvin Lundy for the Thomson souvenir. Why buy something that even the seller cannot authoritatively trace back to Bobby Thomson's bat? (DeLillo's readers know about Cotter Martin and can make the connection, but his characters can't.) Why, especially, since Nick was a teenager in the Bronx and a desperate Dodgers fan when the home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: HOW DID WE GET HERE? | 9/29/1997 | See Source »

...seemed like the plot of a very bad movie, but it wasn't, and before it was over Chris Foote and Spring Wright were dead. Five intruders in ski masks, two with body armor, stormed a three-bedroom bungalow in the Maryvale area of Phoenix, Ariz., at 4 a.m. one day last week, using a sledgehammer to bludgeon their way into the house. In one bedroom they found Louisa Sharrah and proceeded to bind her arms with plastic cuffs and strike her with a metal flashlight. The men woke her young children and held them at gunpoint as they screamed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MURDERS AT DAWN | 9/15/1997 | See Source »

...back toward the equator, creating a circular gyre reminiscent of Earth's great ocean currents, such as those that sweep the Atlantic and Pacific. "We used to think the inside of the sun was fairly simple," says John Harvey, an astronomer at the Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tuscon, Ariz. "But that was before we had the capability to see into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EYES ON THE STORM-TOSSED SUN | 9/8/1997 | See Source »

...including historical romance, suspense, fantasy and science fiction, I feel qualified to state that those of us who write books for a living take the theft of our material very seriously. Plagiarism is plagiarism, no matter what the type of book. And it's not funny! PATRICIA MATTHEWS Prescott, Ariz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 1, 1997 | 9/1/1997 | See Source »

...Iowa, and grew up there. I learned a lot about printing and photography from his father Kenneth. Many an hour I spent with Ken, learning how to develop and print my own film (in his darkroom) and hearing the rumble of that press in the background. JACK FOSTER Prescott, Ariz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 25, 1997 | 8/25/1997 | See Source »

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