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...dish them out with the generosity of an haut-monde hostess casting intimate glances at strangers. Both artists have made funky music before -- easy on the ears, with reverberations that jangle provocatively in a moviegoer's memory. But the violent mood swings Demme programmed into films like Melvin and Howard and Something Wild often kept viewers at a bemused remove. And once or twice Pfeiffer has been stuck in films she could ornament but not inform. This time, though, these two and a gang of co-stars have created a coherent farce symphony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mafia Princess, Dream Queen MARRIED TO THE MOB | 8/22/1988 | See Source »

...respect faded fast in 1986, when the two banks went belly-up. Soon thereafter Wasson left the Guard and resigned his banking posts. Last week a federal grand jury in Oklahoma City charged Wasson, 50, with 16 counts of fraud. The indictment handed up against him and a partner, Melvin Pulliam, 63, said the duo conspired to embezzle $1.3 million from the banks and the U.S. Government. Authorities contend that Wasson used the confidential records of soldiers who had served in his National Guard unit to create applications in their names for six bank loans guaranteed by the Small Business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How To Rob Banks Without a Gun | 8/15/1988 | See Source »

...eight to ten years, says Dr. Ferris Hall of Boston's Beth Israel Hospital. The larger the tumor, the higher the probability that it has already spread to the lymph nodes -- and the lower the prospects for survival. Self-examination alone may give women false reassurance, says Dr. Melvin Silverstein, a breast-cancer specialist in Van Nuys, Calif. "It ignores the biggest breakthrough we've had: finding nonpalpable lumps with mammography...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Mixed Messages on Mammograms | 3/28/1988 | See Source »

Scholars participating in the working groups include Harvard Divinity School Professor of Theology Preston N. Williams, Amherst College Professor David W. Willis, and University of Paris Professor Genevieve Fabre and Queens College Professor Melvin Dixon...

Author: By Kelly D. Eckel, | Title: Ford Foundation Gives Grant to DuBois Inst. | 3/25/1988 | See Source »

...university asked Suffolk Superior Court Judge Robert A. Mulligan to dismiss the suit in which Coretta Scott King, administrator of her late husband's estate, is attempting to gain possession of the documents, said Boston University Trustee Melvin B. Miller...

Author: By Joseph R. Palmore, | Title: BU Asks Judge to Dismiss Coretta Scott King Suit | 1/27/1988 | See Source »

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