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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unedited videotape footage displaying Hugh Hefner's Playmates cavorting for the cameras. Valued at more than $1 million, the tapes constitute the raw material for such soft-porn piffle as erotic movies on the Playboy cable-TV channel and videocassette centerfolds. They included vintage rushes of Sondra Theodore, Miss July 1977 and a former Hefner girlfriend, interviews with Jessica Hahn, and the 1989 Playboy Video Calendar. Playboy officials fear that the culprits will edit the stolen material in video chop shops and resell it in overseas markets at a discount, forcing the company to compete against its own pirated products...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Hef's Hutch Much in Dutch | 5/29/1989 | See Source »

...rest of Crimson sportswriters may think I'm crazy, but I will miss them anyway. Thanks Mark, Julio, Jenny, Mike, Colin and my brother Casey for everything. Well, I'm not going to miss my brother because I'm stuck with him forever. Even though most of the people at The Crimson are liberals, it's still an OK place...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stories of Squash | 5/26/1989 | See Source »

...MISS FIRECRACKER. Holly Hunter reprises her stage role as a lovelorn orphan determined to win a beauty contest. Mary Steenburgen and Alfre Woodard also shine in Beth Henley's comedy about the danger of holding on to youthful dreams and the liberating effect of letting them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: May 22, 1989 | 5/22/1989 | See Source »

Editor's Note--We'll miss you, Trace...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Final Thoughts and Quotes | 5/19/1989 | See Source »

...allusion, an object, a brand of deoderant, the titles of six poems in a row, even an occasional date. This, son, makes for interesting (if effortless) reading, and that is what gets A's. Underline them, capitalize them, inset them in outline form: be sure we don't miss them. Why do you think all exams insist at at the top, "Illustrate;" "Be specific;" etc? They mean it. The illustrations, of course, need not be singularly relevant; but they must be there. If Vague Generalities are anathema, sparkling chips of concrete scattered throughout your blue book will have...

Author: By A Grader, | Title: A Grader's Reply | 5/15/1989 | See Source »

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