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...accoutrements of white-collar work -- desks, chairs on casters, a file cabinet -- and a hospital bed where Poole must sleep each night. His food is brought to him daily by Mac, a burly man who can come and go as he pleases. Poole cannot; he has searched every square inch of the corridor outside and found no exit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: No Exit | 4/30/1990 | See Source »

...skeletal remains were described by police as those of a 5-ft., 5-inch female with brown hair in her early 20s, weighing 118 pounds. The description roughly--but not exactly--matches that of Webster, who was reportedly 5-ft., 2-inches tall, weighing 122 pounds...

Author: By E.k. Anagnostopoulos, | Title: Possible Webster Link Found | 4/28/1990 | See Source »

According to police, the body was found wearing a 15-inch gold chain and an amethyst ring, and two pairs of boots were found within 50 feet of the victim...

Author: By E.k. Anagnostopoulos, | Title: Possible Webster Link Found | 4/28/1990 | See Source »

Well, all right. When O'Connor was last in the U.S., in 1988, she had shaved her head bald, an attention-grabbing device that suited a time when she could hide behind the intricacies of her songs. Her hair these days is a half-inch black corona of fuzz, but she has never been shy about speaking out. "I would rather be compared to Patti Smith than anybody," she says. "I don't want to be compared to people like Suzanne Vega, because I don't like wishy-washy music." She declines to analyze her own work but is keen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Approach of A Desolation Angel | 4/16/1990 | See Source »

...science journal Nature in an unprecedented form. Two IBM researchers, in a scientific and marketing tour de force, had spelled out their corporate emblem by dragging atoms across a crystal of nickel one at a time. The result: the world's smallest corporate logo, measuring 660 billionths of an inch long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TECHNOLOGY: Big Blue's Tiniest Logo | 4/16/1990 | See Source »

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