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SENTENCED. Sean Penn, 25, actor (The Falcon and the Snowman) and newlywed husband of trash-flash Rock Singer Madonna; to a $100 fine and a suspended 180-day jail term, after he pleaded no contest to charges of assaulting a reporter and a photographer who were stalking the couple last June; in Nashville...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Oct. 28, 1985 | 10/28/1985 | See Source »

SPINE-TINGLING MUSIC eerily permeates the scene. Slow, relentless footsteps pulse onward. Somewhere a shutter creaks in the wind. Suddenly, thunder splits the air. A flash of blinding lightning reveals a veiled figure, in its hand a weapon, a knife that brutally, inexpicably, and fatally goes slash in the night...

Author: By Anne Tobias, | Title: Dull Drama | 10/11/1985 | See Source »

...Harvard students weren't born yesterday, though the law might treat them that way, and many under-age students gain two or three years with the flash of card...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fake I.D.'s: Easy to Come By, Harder to Use | 10/11/1985 | See Source »

Which is not to say it's short on poetry itself. Clinton has a sloganeer's knack for engineering mischievous, provocative lyrics. His songs intersperse sexual double entendres with street-talk to round out an informed polemic. The "message" of SOMBJAF--unlike that of Grandmaster Flash--transcends the ghetto cliches that make rap so egregious. We're talkin' the redefinition of urban sophistication...

Author: By Ari Z. Posner, | Title: Vinyl in Boston | 10/10/1985 | See Source »

...front line. On the seventh floor of the bank's Italianate building on Wall Street, six currency traders carry out the Treasury's instructions. Hunched over a circular desk crowded with jangling phones, they buy and sell dollars at U.S. banks while glancing regularly at overhead monitors that flash currency transactions. "The Fed people just love intervening," says a former Treasury official. "They're like little kids with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battling the Mighty Dollar | 10/7/1985 | See Source »

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