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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...study. Poindexter has been busying himself with the routine activities of any suburban homeowner: accompanying his sons Tom, 18, and Joe, 16, to the movies; attending services at the Episcopal church where his wife Linda is assistant pastor; shopping at a local hardware store and Radio Shack outlet to buy equipment for various fix-up projects around his Rockville, Md., house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Calm in The Eye of the Storm | 4/6/1987 | See Source »

...very day of Dortch's ascension, the Charlotte Observer, which first broke the news of Bakker's dalliance, wrote that Dortch had helped negotiate a deal with Hahn. To buy her silence, the paper charged, PTL raised a package of $265,000 for Hahn and her advisers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Evangelism: TV's Unholy Row | 4/6/1987 | See Source »

...part, Fairchild President Donald Brooks now says the company's managers will buy control of the firm. He proposed cooperation with Fujitsu on technology development and manufacturing in the U.S. and Japan, as well as an exchange of rights for new and existing products. Brooks excluded Fairchild's distribution network from any such cooperation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cold Feet: Fujitsu drops its Fairchild bid | 3/30/1987 | See Source »

...twelve-dose box. Like '60s celebrities who swore by B12 shots, enthusiasts claim the new nose job supplies a burst of energy. Absurd, say experts, and the FDA is investigating. Most people have a five- year B12 supply stored in their livers; excess simply gets excreted. "If you buy this gel," sniffs Dr. Victor Herbert of Manhattan's Mount Sinai Medical Center, "you're going to have the most expensive urine in the neighborhood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health & Fitness: New Nostril Nostrum | 3/30/1987 | See Source »

...easy availability of sex tapes. Says Detective Don Smith of the Los Angeles police department: "All the people now in video were making 8 mm or were in magazines. We're talking the same players; we're just seeing a change in the industry." The customer who cannot buy a soft-core magazine like Playboy at the local 7-Eleven can go next door and rent Oriental Lesbian Fantasies for the same price or less. And he may never go back to Playboy. Says veteran Pornographer Al Goldstein: "There's no way a magazine can compete with a tape when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: Romantic Porn in the Boudoir | 3/30/1987 | See Source »

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