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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Comic artifice is better served in a static rendering of Dorothy Parker's Dusk Before Fireworks (directed by Ken Russell, adapted by Valerie Curtin). In the giddy days of bathtub gin -- much guzzling in all three stories, by the way -- the coitus of an aging rake (Peter Weller) and a nubile flapper is rendered interruptus by untimely calls from his other women. Former teen queen Molly Ringwald delivers her lioness's share of the Parker sallies with engaging zest but seems a bit too twentysomethingly modern for a tart of the Roaring Twenties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Six Tales, Twice Told | 8/20/1990 | See Source »

Could I really use this experiment to rake in a bundle of dough this summer? And without working? I was beginning to think...

Author: By Philip M. Rubin, | Title: Selling Our Bodies | 7/10/1990 | See Source »

Back at the historical museum, the ironies hit home. Thirty years ago, David Richmond was a radical. By now he should be a hero. Instead, he is unemployed, ready to rake leaves or paint houses to make ends meet. Although his two kids graduated from college, Richmond never did. As he talks, a young man there with his girlfriend looks up from the display. "Are you one of the guys here?" asks Bill Fox, pointing to the life-size photograph. "Wow." As they discuss the sit-ins, Richmond offers some advice about the color line. "You can choose," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Greensboro, North Carolina The Legacy of Segregation | 6/25/1990 | See Source »

Aeneas Venture Corp. Aeneas Holdings Inc., Demeter Holdings Corp., One Eye Corp. and Phemus Corp. are all subsidaries of President and Fellows of Harvard College--the legal entity that operates the entire university. Finanical whizkids Scott M. Sperling and Michael R. Eisenson rake in $1 million a year juggling the risky ventures...

Author: By Joshua A. Gerstein, | Title: Cafes and Computers: Venture Capital, Harvard-Style | 5/4/1990 | See Source »

...gangs: Young Boys Inc. and the Pony Down. In the process, he encountered four additional groups. The resulting book, Dangerous Society, published in February by Michigan State University Press, provides a harrowing portrait of how the gangs transformed themselves from opportunistic street punks into sophisticated drug-dealing empires that rake in hundreds of millions a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Up From The Streets: Carl S. Taylor | 4/30/1990 | See Source »

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