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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Miami, sold ounces to a small circle of affluent suburbanites throughout the Northeast, lived unflamboyantly and saved about $150,000. "Am I glad I did it? Yes, plain and simple," Leonard says. "It was a perfectly safe business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crashing on Cocaine | 4/11/1983 | See Source »

...prefer more bright piles of cocaine. "It doesn't seem to be a drug of moderation," says Schiavone, the Miami fashion photographer. Another Miamian, Eugene ("Mercury") Morris, the former Dolphins' football star who just began serving a 20-year term for dealing, says he was a free-baser and plain insatiable: " 'Enough' is never present in your reasoning. You've had enough when it's gone, and when it's gone you want some more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crashing on Cocaine | 4/11/1983 | See Source »

...much to play a kid's game. Baseball has lost its virginity. It has been infiltrated and corrupted by money." Then the discussion takes the predictable pseudo-intellectual turn when the baseball haters attempt to defend soccer or lacrosse as better sports. In my opinion, that's just plain silly...

Author: By Andy Doctoroff, | Title: Where Have You Gone, Joe DiMaggio? | 4/8/1983 | See Source »

...still moments, Ponyboy (C. Thomas Howell) can marvel at sun-sets recite poetry and say. "It seems like there's got to be some place without greasers and socs--there's got to be some place with just plain of people." Any by the film's before throwing a punch...

Author: By Thomas H. Howlen, | Title: Growing Pains | 4/5/1983 | See Source »

...tenement, yet spattered with paint as cheerfully as a Jackson Pollock canvas. The only ornament is a poster of the slab boys' hero, the rebel without a cause, James Dean. Standing beneath it, a young man studiously paints a watch onto his wrist. He soon makes plain what the audience guesses: in this knockabout environment, even a watch is an unattainable badge of advancement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Hopeless Nights, Dreamless Days | 3/28/1983 | See Source »

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