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Witnesses said that the Subaru was travelling down Mount Auburn Street at a fast speed and swerved to avoid a car that pulled out from in front of Sage's Jr. Market. The driver lost control of the vehicle while passing through the intersection and collided into a brick wall of the church, knocking down a parking meter...

Author: By Vio Barco, | Title: Driver Injured As Car Swerves Into St. Paul's | 12/5/1986 | See Source »

...plaza's most striking feature is a large abstract sculpture that sits atop a raised brick platform as though it were on a stage. The piece bears the title of one of Houdini's most famous tricks: Metamorphosis. Re-enacted time after time, the routine by now is familiar. The magician's assistant is handcuffed and placed in a sack, which is tied and put into a trunk. The trunk is in turn secured with locks and chains. The magician, standing atop the trunk, briefly raises a curtain. Abracadabra. Suddenly, the magician's assistant stands in the place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Wisconsin: a Magic Spirit | 12/1/1986 | See Source »

Mailer, 63, is in his element in more ways than one. Based on his best- selling 1984 novel, Tough Guys Don't Dance, the film is set in the autumnal gloom of the Cape Cod resort that he has frequented for years. In fact, aptly enough, the director's brick-faced home has been taken over to serve as the onscreen abode of his protagonist Tim Madden, a onetime boxer and womanizing writer who wakes up one morning with a case of alcoholic amnesia and the vague apprehension that he may have killed his wife. Due for release next fall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 1, 1986 | 12/1/1986 | See Source »

Bond embodies that turn to the right. An aristocrat whose grandfather made a family fortune selling fire-resistant brick, the Princeton-educated, preppie-looking Bond entered Republican politics young and in 1972 became Missouri's first Republican Governor in 32 years. He was then considered a moderate, and his reformist notions and support of the Equal Rights Amendment alienated some G.O.P. conservatives. Defeated for re-election in 1976, he came back as a conservative and won a second term four years later. During the Senate campaign, Bond got an unintentional boost when Woods ran a TV spot that pictured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW FACES IN THE SENATE | 11/17/1986 | See Source »

Cocaine has given Starr's brown landscape a dash of affluence. Ornate brick homes protected by iron fences and snarling Rottweilers are popping up along U.S. 83. Investigators say that Colombian operators are paying the mafiosos huge sums to fly drug loads north from makeshift strips. The border patrol has arrested 1,437 Colombian illegals in the valley this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Rio Grande's Drug Corridor | 11/17/1986 | See Source »

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