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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their best to obey the spirit of this injunction. Storytellers appear suddenly, with scant preamble, and seem eager to get off the page as soon as possible. They punctuate their narratives with such remarks as "To make it short . . ." and "Why drag it out?" The Trap involves yet another caller at the writer's apartment, a woman on crutches who announces, "I'm not going to bother you with too many details. I'll come right to the point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Din of Demanding Voices | 5/2/1988 | See Source »

Several days after the first call, the Daily received a call from a Black male who said he had made the call. But the recipient of the call said she did not think the caller was the same person who had threatened her because he did not know details about the call she received...

Author: By Emily Mieras, | Title: Threatening Phone Calls Harass University of Michigan Students | 3/19/1988 | See Source »

...student government, the Michigan Student Assembly, offered a $2500 reward after the first threatening phone message for information that would help identify the caller, according to the Daily...

Author: By Emily Mieras, | Title: Threatening Phone Calls Harass University of Michigan Students | 3/19/1988 | See Source »

...line for seven minutes. The police were very unhelpful, "LaForest said. "The caller threatened to kill gay men, and he wanted to come over and rape [Carol] and all lesbians in general...

Author: By Emily Mieras, | Title: Threatening Phone Calls Harass University of Michigan Students | 3/19/1988 | See Source »

...dwarf costume labeled SLEAZY, as he pushed the other six candidates off a cliff. Hart was also tagged by cartoonists as HORNY and RANDY. A popular Denver radio show held an hour-long phone-in of the latest jokes about him, most of which tended toward the tasteless. One caller said the best Hart joke was that "Gary is running for President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ghost Of Gary Past | 12/28/1987 | See Source »

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