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...Boesky case had an instant sobering effect on the takeover game. As the thunder of the insider-trading disclosures rose in volume, a number of big plays suddenly came to a halt. Wickes, a Santa Monica, Calif., retailing and manufacturing conglomerate headed by Sanford Sigoloff, 56, announced that it might not be able to carry out the estimated $1.7 billion acquisition of California's Lear Siegler, the aerospace and automotive-products concern. Sigoloff's bankers, spooked by the Boesky scandal, apparently balked at financing the deal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Going After the Crooks | 12/1/1986 | See Source »

...California. That pulling this off might require the implacable imagination of Doris Lessing does not seem to have daunted the author, whose career suggests a practical attitude toward the writing game. See has had good critical success with her novels Rhine Maidens and Mothers, Daughters. As a component of "Monica Highland," she has collaborated on mass-market romances (Lotus Land and 110 Shanghai Road). There is also Professor See, who teaches writing at UCLA, and See a book reviewer for the Los Angeles Times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Apocalypse Soon Golden Days | 11/24/1986 | See Source »

...luxury condominiums in fashionable West Los Angeles. The Billionaire Boys Club was a group of about 30 rich kids who were out to have fun and get richer, but authorities say their lavish life-style and freewheeling investment philosophy soon led some members to swindles and violence. In Santa Monica last week, the B.B.C.'s compelling but manipulative founder, Joe Hunt, watched as jury selection began for his trial on murder charges, which could put him on death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bad Boys :Investors who went for broke | 11/17/1986 | See Source »

...deputy chairman of the Conservative ! Party and the author of six top-selling novels, including Kane and Abel and the current best seller A Matter of Honor. Last week the Sunday News of the World (circ. 4.8 million) carried a five-page story claiming that Archer had offered Prostitute Monica Coghlan (pounds)2,000 ($2,800) to pay for a trip abroad to avoid scandal. The same day, Archer resigned the post to which Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher had appointed him a year earlier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain More Scandalous Than Fiction | 11/10/1986 | See Source »

That doesn't mean minority students don't appear in other productions. Monica Sams, for instance, has played roles in several Loeb Mainstage productions, including Wuthering Heights and most recently, as a goddess in The Tempest...

Author: By Michelle D. Tanenbaum, | Title: An Alternative Theater Experience | 10/31/1986 | See Source »

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