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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...schematics showing the trajectory of the bullets, and the letters-including of course the crucial Scarsdale Letter." That frenzied, ten-page epistle, the emotional centerpiece of the trial, had been sent by Harris to Tarnower the morning of his death. "I have to do something besides shriek with pain," she wrote. She called rival Tryforos "a vicious, adulterous psychotic" and "a thieving slut." Harris described her pain, saying she felt "like discarded trash . . . You keep me in control by threatening me with banishment, an easy threat which you know I couldn't live with." To Bolen, the letter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jean Harris: Murder with Intent to Love | 3/9/1981 | See Source »

...Pain, as Powell readers know, gets registered no more sharply than pleasure. There is, however, a good deal of subliminal throb. While his wife is writing for the press "on horses and equitation," Powell's career as a largely unread novelist goes nowhere. He works for Warner Bros, near London, hacking out scripts about messenger boys and Victorian philanthropists. None are produced. In 1937, at the suggestion of his agent, Powell journeys to Hollywood. The high point of his stay in Celluloid City is a lunch at the MGM commissary with Scott Fitzgerald, who draws a rough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Muted Memoir FACES IN MY TIME by Anthony Powell | 3/9/1981 | See Source »

...that there has to be a reduction in spending. He has thrown down the challenge; it's very reasonable. If we don't like his proposals, it's up to us to propose alternatives." Said Manhattan Investment Banker Felix Rohatyn: "We should be warned that the pain of the cutbacks is likely to offset our pleasure from tax reductions. But we've got to give Reagan's program a chance, especially because we have no valid alternative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Challenge to Change: Reagan calls for an end to spendthrift Big Government | 3/2/1981 | See Source »

...might say that Rimbaud wrote the major part of the script. Claiming that the poet's task is to be a seer, Rimbaud while still in his teens demanded "a long, immense and deliberate derangement of all the senses, the poet seeking every possible experience of love, pain and madness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Absinthe Boys | 3/2/1981 | See Source »

That the pleasure was worth all the pain...

Author: By Constance M. Laibe, | Title: 'Coconut Telegraph' | 2/25/1981 | See Source »

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