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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Devito, a Facilities Maintenance field supervisor, said officials were uncertain as to the precise cause of the outage...

Author: By Noam S. Cohen, | Title: Blackout Descends, Leaves 3000 in Dark | 12/14/1985 | See Source »

...husband Bruce Tyson, 32, Santa Monica, Calif., money manager: a daughter, their first child; in Los Angeles. Two days earlier, Long's costar and fellow Cheers waitress, Rhea Perlman, 36, also gave birth in New York City to a daughter, the second child for her and Actor Husband Danny DeVito, 40, star of TV's rerunning Taxi and films (Romancing the Stone). Perlman's character, Carla, became pregnant for this TV season, but Long's Diane, hidden by camera angles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Apr. 8, 1985 | 4/8/1985 | See Source »

...Billy Idol has jumped on the bandwagon of re-recording 60s hits with the added technology of the 80s. When the songs come on the radio, in a bar, in a club, they ahve built-in instant recognition value. Barland Jeffreys did this to "96 Tears", Karla DeVito (on her astoundingly titled album, Is this a Cool World or WHAT?) recycled "Midnight Confessions." Last summer's "Stars on 45" melded dozens of these songs into one disco fiasco...

Author: By David M. Handelman, | Title: The Demons of Pseudo-Euro-Disco; Jeffreys, Hunter, Kinks & Stones Redux | 10/29/1981 | See Source »

...construction costs are rising rapidly, and fluctuating interest rates make financing both expensive and difficult to obtain. Because of local opposition, zoning regulations and environmental restrictions, the development of a new suburban mall now can take up to ten years, twice as long as in the 1960s. Says Mathias DeVito, president of the Rouse Co., one of the country's largest developers: "I doubt we will ever again see the kind of shopping center development that we saw after World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Melancholy Mall | 10/20/1980 | See Source »

Prosecutor Thomas Puccio started off with a 30-min. video tape of a meeting in August 1979 between Myers and Errichetti and an undercover agent who called himself "Tony Devito" at a motel near New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport. On the tape, Myers boasted grandly of being able to fix the sheik's immigration problems, then gave some pungent advice: "I'm gonna tell you something real simple and short. Money talks in this business, and bullshit walks." As the agent handed over an envelope bulging with $50,000 in $100 bills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The FBI's Show of Shows | 9/1/1980 | See Source »

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