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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hear about the New Jersey garage owner known to his friends as the "jovial giant"? Seems he was shot to death in his driveway, allegedly by a former Scout leader who was having an affair with his wife. How about the middle-aged beautician in Florida who used to hang out at a bar called Madge's? Gave a ride to a drifter one night and wound up with her throat slashed and her body dumped by the railroad tracks. Then there's the Garden Grove, Calif., teenager convicted of shooting her stepmother to death. Now she claims...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: A Walk on the Seamy Side | 10/31/1988 | See Source »

...first rounds of yesterday's debate, the teams could choose to argue on Joseph Goebbels' comment, "Whenever I hear the word, `culture,' I reach for my revolver," and Stalin's "One death is a tragedy; one million deaths are a statistic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Short Takes | 10/29/1988 | See Source »

...Harvard Squares prefer music similar to the Kroks' repertoire, but will sing whatever people want to hear. "Unlike the Krokodiloes, who have a following served on a silver platter, we don't already have a market established so we need to be adaptable," said Korn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Short Takes | 10/28/1988 | See Source »

Soft music played from the jukebox. Couples leaned in close, trying to hear each other over loud voices. Bogey's visage kept watch from posters around the room...

Author: By Brooke A. Masters, | Title: We Came, We Saw, We Drank | 10/28/1988 | See Source »

ONCE, Herodotus tell us, there was a rich ruler, Croesus, who had just about everything a man could want. One day he asked Solon, the world's wisest man, to tell him who was the happiest man in the world, expecting of course to hear "You, Sire." Instead, Solon mentioned that it is not good policy to eulogize before the end. Even as he was saying this, Croesus' enemies were laying the plans which brought about his eventual fall...

Author: By Bill Tsingos, | Title: Duke's Night in the Sun | 10/25/1988 | See Source »

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