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...three years I'm eating bread, and I want to eat cake." For a guy like Lou, though, old habits die hard. After he won, he ambled into work, said nothing and resumed his normal routine, deciding to quit only after he asked himself: "What kind of a nut am I? Who walks around screwing in light bulbs that's a millionaire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 30, 1981 | 11/30/1981 | See Source »

Sadat's assassination was not a lovelorn nut-case fluke like the attack on Ronald Reagan in March, nor was it the almost metaphysically surprising outrage committed six weeks later in St. Peter's Square...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sadat: Murder of a Man Of Peace | 10/19/1981 | See Source »

Late one night, after finishing your article on ice cream, I forgot calories, triglycerides and cholesterol. I had to have ice cream, preferably mocha-nut or rum-raisin marshmallow-nut. What had my sensible, nutrition-conscious wife stored in the freezer? Frozen, uncoated, vanilla yogurt bars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 31, 1981 | 8/31/1981 | See Source »

...very much, and which serves its sundaes in silver-plated bowls resting on silver-plated salvers. In New York City, you get Häagen-Dazs at Elaine's, and Sedutto's at the Four Seasons and "21." Germaine's in Washington, D.C., serves a litchi-nut ice cream made specially by Bob's Famous; Lockeober's in Boston serves ice cream specially made by Bailey's. Chasen's, Scandia and Perino's in Los Angeles haughtily refuse to divulge their ice-cream brands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ice Cream: They All Scream for It | 8/10/1981 | See Source »

...cell at Rikers Island, reading and watching TV. The only other inmate in the 13-cell maximum-security row is Craig Crimmins, 22, convicted of murdering a violinist at the Metropolitan Opera House. The two no longer speak; Chapman is still furious that Crimmins called him a "nut case" last month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Divine Justice | 7/6/1981 | See Source »

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