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...Warm Gun. He does a Yokoized What's the New Mary Jane, a previously unreleased number with Lewis Carroll-like lyrics and avant-garde inventiveness. But there's also an urgent I'm So Tired, still one of Lennon's most potent songs--ennui, annoyance, panic and plea in two minutes flat. The mood of these sessions is serious fun. Songs tail into parody as the lads assume the IDs of sham bands: Ricky and the Red Streaks, or Los Paranoias ("Come on, enjoy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: IT'S MOLDY ROCK 'N' ROLL | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

SENTENCED. GIORGIO ARMANI, 62, fashion designer; to a 20-day suspended jail term under a plea bargain on charges involving an alleged $197,000 bribe to tax police; in Milan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Nov. 4, 1996 | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

Speaking at the council meeting, Bob Tobin, a member of the Cambridge Clergy for Affordable Housing, said the campaign's plea provides the council with a chance to practice "politics of compassion...

Author: By Georgia N. Alexakis, | Title: City Considers Protection of Rent | 10/29/1996 | See Source »

...plea bargain turned ADM (1995 sales: $12.7 billion) into an informer for the government. In exchange for immunity, company officials agreed to become witnesses against other firms under investigation for conspiring with ADM to rig prices in the $1.2 billion citric-acid market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE FIX WAS IN AT ADM | 10/28/1996 | See Source »

...plea bargain was a public humiliation for Dwayne Andreas, a political insider who has funneled millions in corporate contributions to Republican and Democratic candidates. Andreas has particularly close ties to Bob Dole, who has used ADM corporate planes for campaign trips and vacationed with Andreas in Bal Harbour, Florida; Dole and his wife Elizabeth purchased an apartment there from Andreas. Dole has championed myriad agricultural subsidies that have benefited ADM. With Dole's support, Washington has paid out more than $6 billion in subsidies since 1980 for ethanol, the corn-based fuel that ADM makes; it holds a 65% share...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE FIX WAS IN AT ADM | 10/28/1996 | See Source »

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