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...bounty for their own use. They had caviar tastes on a thieving-magpie budget. Over the years, Thomas claims, he stole more than $250,000 worth of goods for them. In the house, police found a stash of luxury items, some with price tags still attached. Among them: Baccarat crystal, a $2,490 Chanel cashmere sweater and a full-length white fox coat. He says the Dicks were fussy: James, for one, was not about to accept suits not labeled Armani...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEY DIDN'T PAY RETAIL | 12/23/1996 | See Source »

...arrived accompanied by Carla Schrom, a Dayton's investigator posing as a crooked store employee, and presented Jim and Stacy, who were visiting, with a Coach briefcase, a Baccarat crystal eagle and three suits. They allegedly bought the crystal and leather but declined the suits, demanding Armanis instead. This provoked a flurry of activity, since the nearby Dayton's didn't carry the favored designer in 42-long. Officers had to fetch some from the chain's Minneapolis branch. But the delay may have paid off, since by the time the new loot arrived, the elder Dicks were home. After...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEY DIDN'T PAY RETAIL | 12/23/1996 | See Source »

...responses were just the opposite, however. Harvard athletes from the four holiday-traveling teams made it crystal-clear that athletics take precedence over leisure. In fact, they were looking forward to holiday competition on the road as a chance to bond and grow stronger as a team...

Author: By Chris W. Mcevoy, | Title: If It's Friday, It Must Be Duluth | 12/16/1996 | See Source »

Certainly an environmentalist refrain does seem part of the liturgy of almost everyone on the religious fringe of the Web. And not surprisingly, this green perspective is typically global (the Web is, after all, worldwide). The generally amorphous teachings of the First Internet Church of All have one crystal-clear theme: "saving the living organism known as Earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAN THOR MAKE A COMEBACK? | 12/16/1996 | See Source »

...this plus Martha crafting swizzle sticks out of orange peels--yes, orange peels--not costly antique crystal. Few give credit to the stylemaker for her egalitarianism (in that spirit, one of her guests this year is the thinking man's proletarian, Dennis Franz, who swings by Martha's Connecticut home for a glass of punch). Throughout her holiday special Martha preaches cheap elegance, counseling us to wrap our gifts in inexpensive tulle and tissue paper, showing us how to make tree ornaments out of tin. "I'm trying to get back to handmade stuff," she declares. "Christmas is too rushed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: GLAD TIDINGS SHE BRINGS | 12/16/1996 | See Source »

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