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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...home overlooking Washington's Rock Creek Park and a 2.5% stake in the Washington Capitals ice-hockey team. Among the investors who flocked to his deals were a host of celebrities, including Filmmaker Woody Allen, Comic Bill Murray, Actors Christopher Walken and Frank Langella, TV Personality Dick Cavett and Author Erica Jong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bogus Shelters for the Stars | 5/6/1985 | See Source »

...reasoned or mistaken opinions," says William Van Alstyne of Duke University Law School, "but they can't be rationalized by the age of the Justices." Although most have complained about the heavy case load, there is little talk of retirement. "After all," quips University of Virginia Law Professor A.E. Dick Howard, "the job doesn't involve any heavy lifting." The most discussed possible resignation at the moment is inevitably that of Powell, 77. "He is not the kind of person who would allow this situation to go on indefinitely," Philip Kurland of the University of Chicago Law School says. "Unless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: An Illness Ties Up the Justices | 4/8/1985 | See Source »

...only among local officials but also among some court observers who think that such an abrupt and emphatic reversal on so important an issue makes a mockery of the judicial function. "This shows the influence of personalities over the rule of law," says University of Virginia Law Professor A.E. Dick Howard. "It tends to undermine public confidence in the stability of our justice system." Dissenter Justice Lewis Powell was similarly troubled. "Respect for the authority of this court," he wrote, is "not served by the precipitous overruling of multiple precedents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Court Flip-Flop: A redefinition of states' rights | 3/4/1985 | See Source »

Your hostess on tonight's cruise Anita Mann (Robert Sagar Coburn). Entertainment on the Lido Deck, from the bountiful Miles Long (Leonard Dick), who offers up vintage shlock along the lines of "It's love, bigger than a breadbox. It's love, trendier than dredlocks." Cabin assistants include Eileen Dover (Zak Klobucher), Sharon Sharalike (Mark Meredith). Auntie Histamine (Michael Golder) and Alice Fairinlove (Steve Lyne...

Author: By Holly A. Idelson, | Title: Taking in a Show--Or Two | 2/20/1985 | See Source »

...call from a woman who asked in a heavy German accent whether her father was home. The French terrorists seem to take pains to identify themselves with their West German counterparts. After Audran's assassination, for example, Action Directe attributed the killing to what it called "the Elizabeth von Dick Commando," named for a member of the Red Army Faction killed by West German police seven years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism New Generation of Violence | 2/11/1985 | See Source »

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