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...bump" on his eyelid (caused by a contact lens). You could read about it on page 3 of the Washington Post. A classic of the genre is an item that ran in the New York Times a couple of years ago: GLASS CUTS KISSINGER'S NOSE. Only a nick really, and he'd been out of power for nine years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Oliver North | 7/27/1987 | See Source »

...former Teamsters President Roy L. Williams, 72. Serving a ten- year sentence on a 1982 bribery and fraud conviction, Williams testified on videotape at the Manhattan trial of twelve reputed Mafia members and associates for alleged racketeering. He described how emissaries of the late Kansas City, Mo., Mafia boss Nick Civella brought him a message: If he did not become Civella's "boy," he could anticipate the deaths of his two children, his wife and himself, in that order. He became the boy. "Organized crime was filtered into the Teamsters union a long time before I came there," he summed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trials: Tales from a Teamster | 6/15/1987 | See Source »

...First Team All-Ivy Honorable Mention Joe Connolly '87 Football All-Ivy Honorable Mention All-N.E. Honorable Mention Mia Costello '90 Swimming All-Ivy First Team Elizabeth Crowley '87 Softball All-Ivy First Team Jim DePalo '87 Baseball All-greater Boston League All-New England Second Team Nick D'Onofrio '90 Soccer All-Ivy Honorable Mention Joe Dowling '87 Squash All-Ivy First Team Arne Duncan '87 Basketball All-Ivy Honorable Mention GTE Academic All-America Sarah Duncan '89 Basketball All-Ivy First Team Diana Edge '88 Squash All-Ivy First Team Cindi Ersek '88 Field Hockey...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Saluting Harvard's Finest Performers of 1986-'87 | 6/10/1987 | See Source »

...lights go up, the audience is transported to a mythic New York City underworld in which all of the guys--and a curious policeman--are desperately trying to find out where Nathan Detroit (Nick Davis) is going to hold his famous floating craps game next. Meanwhile, over at the Hot Box dance club, Nathan's fiance of 14 years, Miss Adelaide (Lisa Tornell) is putting on another show with the dolls...

Author: By Brooke A. Masters, | Title: Guys and Dolls | 5/8/1987 | See Source »

...winner is . . . Walter Hill (once a Peckinpah writer) for Extreme Prejudice, which stars Nick Nolte as a modern-day Texas Ranger; Powers Boothe as his old buddy, now a master dope smuggler and chatty amoralist; Maria Conchita Alonso as the woman they both love; and a wild bunch from the CIA or somewhere. Their task is to supply the movie with a little mystery and a lot of obscurantist firepower, enough to drown out conventional logic's objections to a vast silliness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Blood Ample EXTREME PREJUDICE | 5/4/1987 | See Source »

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