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On weekend nights, when teenagers crowd the sidewalks, the left and the right, the hippies and the preppies and the punks, negotiate a peaceful coexistence. Often the snub-nosed Groton girls stand alongside the skate rats from Somerville High, all of them listening to the soulful entreaty of a street...

Author: By Adam K. Goodheart, | Title: A People-Watcher's Field Guide | 7/3/1990 | See Source »

Matthew has reportedly told police he expected to receive $10,000 for helping his brother in a vague insurance scam. After a dry run the night before the murder, Matthew showed up at the designated rendezvous point. He took Carol Stuart's Gucci bag from Charles. It contained her wallet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Presumed Innocent: Charles Stuart | 1/22/1990 | See Source »

According to Stuart, the prosperous couple -- he managed a fashionable fur store, she was a lawyer -- were accosted as they left the hospital by a black man armed with a .38-cal. snub-nosed revolver. The robber, Stuart claimed, ordered him to drive to an isolated section of the racially...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hero, Suspect, Suicide | 1/15/1990 | See Source »

Small, snub nosed, slow and the product of Stalinist central planning, the Trabant is the ugly duckling of East Germany's roadways. The ubiquitous "Trabi" has not had its flaky Duraplast body redesigned since the first mass-production models rolled off the assembly line in 1964. Its motorcycle- size two...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transportation How Do You Double the Value Of a Trabant? | 1/1/1990 | See Source »

By hiring Louis-Dreyfus, the Saatchis have harked back to the skill that transformed their small agency in London's Soho district into an international behemoth: hard-nosed financial know-how. The Iraqi-born brothers convinced London investors a decade ago that the ad business was an intriguing play. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sibling Setbacks | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

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