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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most detailed advice, and dozens of how-to books and pamphlets are already coming off the printing presses. Examples: the accounting firm Deloitte Haskins & Sells has published a free 96-page booklet, The Tax Revolution: A New Era Begins, and Pocket Books is coming out this month with J.K. Lasser's What the New Tax Law Means to You, a 320-page guide, priced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Playing the New Tax Game | 10/13/1986 | See Source »

This work seems to suffer acutely from a problem of genre: is it a play? is it an opera? Billed as a "musical tale," it seems neither fish no, fowl nor the best of both worlds. The music, written and performed by Philip Lasser, is elusive and singularly inappropriate in nature; it runs on incessantly, ubiquitously beneath the speech, providing less of a meaningful subtext than a distraction or, at worst, an embarrassment, as the unfortunate singers actors explode into snatches of unsingable, off-key melody. This post-Wagnerian syndrome is if anything aggravated by the nature of the text...

Author: By Yoon SUN Lee, | Title: The Devil Made Me Do It | 3/8/1985 | See Source »

Both the orchestra and the music director. Philip Lasser, deserve praise for a strong and consistent job; director Charles Berney should be commended for all but his somewhat mechanical choreography. Fatima Mahdi's costumes are charming, and Adam Kibbe's impressive sets deserved a curtain call all their...

Author: By Frances T. Ruml, | Title: Paradise Found | 12/6/1984 | See Source »

...thank you and so do our future readers who long to know about foods like Lasser's old-fashioned soda pop from Chicago. It's it ice cream bars from San Francisco and Wahoo Weiners from the OK Market in Wahoo, Neb. Margaret Engel 2038 18th St., N.W. Washington, D.C. 20009 Allison Engel R.R. #4 Princeton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Munchies | 3/2/1983 | See Source »

Much about the use of cocaine by celebrities has been highly publicized, including the arrests. Among them: Linda Blair, cherub-faced star of The Exorcist; Louise Lasser, the ill-fated Mary Hartman; Symphony Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas, who plea-bargained down to a disorderly-conduct charge; Rolling Stone Guitarist Keith Richard, whose hard living is legend; Comedian Flip Wilson, who was taken into custody only hours before a scheduled meeting with Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley. Not even the White House has been untouched. Dr. Peter Bourne, the Carter drug adviser who resigned after giving an aide a prescription...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Some Close Encounters | 7/6/1981 | See Source »

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