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...Charlie Sheen in Wall Street) are the ring bearers, the genetically streamlined children, of the new amorality. Bud, in his mid-20s, is learning how to wheel and wheedle; Tom, in his mid-30s, already knows how to ingratiate and conquer. Bud does it with long hours and pit-bull doggedness, Tom with his boyish, passive charisma. Both men might tell you that ideals are as passe as peace marches and that the happening disease, the one everyone wants to catch, is designer greed. So who cares that Bud is a bookie in an Armani suit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Season Of Flash And Greed | 12/14/1987 | See Source »

...State and Community Affairs Jacqueline O'Neill, daughter-in-law of the Speaker, seriously considered a bid for Congress. They tell us that the Kennedy campaign bought 320 dozen donuts for 2000 precinct workers on primary day. We learn that Tom Gallagher had three separate encounters with Cambridgeport pit bulls during his effort to knock on nearly every door in the district. We also learn that Jim Roosevelt's heart wasn't in the "shrill" tactics his advisors suggested early in the campaign...

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, | Title: Eighth Misbehavin' | 12/9/1987 | See Source »

Citizens in Morgan Hill, Calif., were outraged last June when a pit bullterrier savagely attacked and killed James Soto, 2 1/2, a toddler who had wandered into a neighbor's backyard. Willie, the muscular, 60-lb. dog responsible for the mauling, was subsequently destroyed. Last week Willie's owner, Michael Patrick Berry, 37, was formally charged with murder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Murder by Tooth and Claw | 12/7/1987 | See Source »

...window. "I will do anything for money," he confided. "But I must have money--huge, pointlessly huge amounts of it." I still grow nostalgic when I think of that afternoon. Someday, quite soon in fact, his eternal soul will be mine to torture for endless centuries above a pit of burning sulfer...

Author: By Jeffrey J. Wise, | Title: Do the Hustler | 12/5/1987 | See Source »

Another area where the skinheads of The Pit resemble the English skinheads is social class. "We're all working-class oriented," says Modley, who works in Baby Watson...

Author: By Seth A. Gitell, | Title: Philosophy of The Pit: Skins Talk Straightedge | 12/3/1987 | See Source »

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