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...professor. She wants to write and also likes to smoke a little dope. In the meantime, she keeps the necessary $50 ahead of perdition (banked under the rug of the one- room roach farm she shares with Leo and her grown son Morgani) by soldiering for an office-temporaries outfit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sleazy Street AFOOT IN A FIELD OF MEN | 1/18/1988 | See Source »

...anticipation of the holidays and the New Year. People really do seem nicer this time of year, I think. Then I notice that the guy outside the Coop collecting Christmas money ostensibly for the Salvation Army looks remarkably like the wheelchair basketball guy done up in a Santa Claus outfit...

Author: By Steven Lichtman, | Title: He Just Did It | 12/16/1987 | See Source »

...spiraling growth have transformed the major law firms, leaving many of them more like the corporate world they serve: dollar conscious, competitive, increasingly bureaucratized and less genteel. With 300 attorneys, Cadwalader would have been counted as a giant ten years ago. Now it ranks as merely a large outfit in a field that holds megafirms of 800 plus. The largest, Chicago-based Baker & McKenzie, just broke the 1,000 mark. Many of the behemoths are run by nonattorney managers who operate like corporate chiefs, drumming up sales and plotting growth strategies. Says Richard Santagati, the onetime head of NYNEX...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Tremors In The Realm Of Giants | 12/7/1987 | See Source »

...their attempts to follow this [the Nugan Hand investigation] up, Australian investigators questioned their star Nugan Hand witness, George Shaw, who recalled dealings within a Sydney outfit called the Loy Arms Corporation. Shaw hadn't been involved in the details. But Loy's proprietor, Kevin Joseph Loy, acknowledged he had been approached by Wilhelmus Hans on behalf of Nugan Hand. In fact, a search of Loy's records produced copies of a weapons import permit from South Africa, dated September 18, 1975, another import permit from Singapore dated November 4, and an Australian export permit dated November 10--all involving...

Author: By Whitney A. Bower, | Title: Spooky Tales | 11/14/1987 | See Source »

...hours last month, she held the nation's heart as rescuers in Midland, Texas, worked desperately to free her from an abandoned well. Last week Jessica McClure took her first public bows since she emerged battered and bloody from her underground prison. Wearing an orange-and-black Halloween outfit, the 19-month-old child chirped "Trick or treat!" at a press conference in Midland Memorial Hospital. Bandages covered her forehead and right foot; doctors hope to begin skin grafts this week to repair the wounds. Midland celebrated the happy ending with a parade to honor the 400 people who took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Texas: Celebrating For Jessica | 11/9/1987 | See Source »

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