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Committee's president and chief salesman, accepted it with a flourish. In the language of aviation, his first enterprise before the travel business made him a millionaire, he countered baseball's offer with a list of "no go" demands. Unless every item was checked, he was not going anywhere. For example, except in tampering cases, the commissioner's fining authority has been technically limited to $5,000 a club and $500 a player. "That's no good," Ueberroth said. "I have to be able to fine an owner a quarter of a million dollars. Somebody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Commissioner on Deck | 3/12/1984 | See Source »

...matter to director O'Neil that Angel has managed to flourish (and rather well, judging from the clothing she wears) from the crazed sex maniacs who roam the boulevard. And no matter what, despite three years of rather profitable business, none of the vice squad seems to have ever seen Angel before. Such issues are peripheral to the more critical plot twist--the mad (what else) necrophiliac who alternately pumps iron and chops up young women after making love to their corpses...

Author: By David B. Pollack, | Title: Angelic Trash | 2/28/1984 | See Source »

Drug abuse, prostitution and assorted other crimes-minor and major-flourish in many immigrant ghettos. Young Turks and Surinamese are deeply involved in the narcotics trade around Amsterdam; addiction is common among young North Africans in Paris. Says Nordine Iznasni, 21, a resident of the notorious Cité Gutenberg, a collection of ramshackle, barrack-like buildings in the Paris suburb of Nanterre: "When you've got nothing to do and nothing to look forward to, it's a way to hide from reality, just as French kids do. Young North Africans are sick of rejection, unemployment and disrespect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe: Rising Racism on the Continent | 2/6/1984 | See Source »

Watching TV is now the most popular leisure-time activity in America. The VCR only expands the amount of time devoted to that peculiarly nonactive activity, and thus expands a market in which many producers can flourish as program suppliers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Decision: Tape It to the Max | 1/30/1984 | See Source »

...place of his dreams, the abandoned farm on the arid South African tablelands of the Karoo, where his mother was born. There he scatters Anna's ashes, and there too he plants a handful of pumpkin and melon seeds. On the deserted land the fruits flourish, round and warm as children. Michael K changes. He feels bound to the land, even as he anticipates the inevitable stigmata. "I am becoming a different kind of man, he thought . . . If I were cut, he thought, holding his wrists out, looking at his wrists, the blood would no longer gush from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Armageddon | 1/2/1984 | See Source »

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