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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spring of 1948, the body of CBS correspondent George Polk washed up in Salonika bay, his hands and feet bound with rope, a bullet hole in the back of his head. The Greek pathologist who conducted the autopsy on the 34-year- old journalist found 3 lbs. of undigested lobster in his stomach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Unquiet Grave | 10/8/1990 | See Source »

...During the Guber-Peters deal last year, Yetnikoff began rehabilitation for substance abuse. "I think Walter is just fed up," says music-industry veteran Lynda ("Boom-Boom") Emon, a former mistress of Yetnikoff's who is writing a kiss-and-tell book. "He came to the end of his rope and said, 'What do I need this for? I'm rich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Music King's Shattering Fall | 9/17/1990 | See Source »

...They're no good 'cause Donny flies up on a rope," said seven-year old Joe Mancuso, referring to an act during the New Kids tour that simulates flying. Mancuso, his black hair cut in a crew-cut, was disappointed because he could tell that Wahlberg wasn't really flying...

Author: By Seth A. Gitell, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Local Students Sound Off on New Kids | 9/10/1990 | See Source »

...avenging angel. His human sympathies range widely, from blacks who count neither as men nor animals, to Choctaws who are just slightly higher on the scale of outcasts, to Watson's pretty daughter, who at 13 is virtually sold into marriage and three years later still plays skip rope in the streets of Fort Myers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Wild Tread of God KILLING MISTER WATSON by Peter Matthiessen | 7/16/1990 | See Source »

...houses. Over the past three years, they have simply doubled their price estimates regardless of what the thing might really be worth. You can't go on jerking up prices relentlessly like that without real clients ready to pay them, and clearly they're not. You run out of rope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Bumps in The Auction Boom | 5/28/1990 | See Source »

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