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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...selling Paper Lion. Now, in The Curious Case of Sidd Finch, Plimpton indulges the fantasy that he is a novelist. The book, which began as a benign hoax in the April 1, 1985, issue of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, is based on a charming conceit: a narrator suffering from writer's block tells the story of Sidd Finch, a British-born Buddhist-trained monk who can throw a baseball 168 m.p.h with unfailing accuracy. Sidd, short for Siddhartha, joins the New York Mets in spring training and hooks up with Debbie Sue, a Florida beachgirl and playmate of porpoises. Plimpton employs real...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bookends: Jun. 8, 1987 | 6/8/1987 | See Source »

...Mogul Rupert Murdoch over the Herald and Weekly Times, Australia's largest media group. Last August Holmes a Court disclosed that he was seeking a 15% stake in USX, the steel giant. As takeover speculation pushed the price of the stock upward, he reportedly took a profit on a block of his shares...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stalking Texaco: An Australian buys in big | 6/1/1987 | See Source »

Nineteen protesters were forcibly removed from the steps of the Fogg Art Museum by Cambridge police on November 21 after they attempted to block guests from entering a dinner for the Harvard College Fund. The cases against 12 of the protesters, including the first two undergraduates arrested during a political protest since 1969, were dismissed when they agreed not to contest the facts the police presented...

Author: By Mark M. Colodny, | Title: Necessity Defense Barred In Fogg Protester Trial | 5/29/1987 | See Source »

Although the Nigerian leaders' fervent anti-communism hardly made credible a close alliance between Nigeria and the Soviet Union, the possibility of a rapprochement between the two nations was sufficient to cause one State Department official to threaten: "the United States government will do everything in its power to block" private citizens from organizing a relief effort...

Author: By Mitchell Berman, | Title: The Lessons of War | 5/29/1987 | See Source »

Ironically, the most unflattering portrayal in the picture is not of murderer Halliwell or the perverse Orton, but of Lahr himself. Played annoyingly by Wallace Shawn, Lahr comes across as a block-headed buffoon with hardly a grasp of the events he is retelling. His interviews with Peggy Ramsay (Vanessa Redgrave), Orton's literary agent, point out the distance between artist and audience; it's as if Ramsay, representing Orton, is leading Lahr around on a string...

Author: By Jess M. Bravin, | Title: Prick Up Your Ears | 5/27/1987 | See Source »

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