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Ellis didn't lack for formal audacity. He Cuisinarted a bunch of cultural influences, with Dostoyevsky, the '80s preppie-murder case and the original Psycho (Norman Bates=Patrick Bateman) sliced and spliced into an inversion of The Bonfire of the Vanities. In Tom Wolfe's novel, Wall Streeter Sherman McCoy accidentally kills someone and gets hounded by an entire city. Patrick, who works at the same fictional firm as McCoy (Pierce and Pierce, if you get the joke's knife point), slaughters half a dozen people, or maybe 20 or 40; and not only does he get away with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Yuppie's Killer Instinct | 4/17/2000 | See Source »

...Radner and namesakes 9. Results of arms treaties, sometimes 10. Knocker's reply 11. Congressman Rothman called him a "brutish thug" 12. __ de deux 16. Seemingly forever 19. Senator Joseph, who endorsed Gore 21. Hsia, who was found guilty of making illegal contributions to the Democrats 23. Hell, to Sherman 24. D.C. fund raiser 26. Natural-selection theoretician 27. __ Halonen, Finland's first woman President 28. Hall of Famer Lefty 29. Pollster's projection 30. Stutz Bearcat contemporary 31. Wen Ho Lee has been denied bail in the Los __ security breach 32. 1936 Peace Nobelist Carlos Saavedra __ 34. C.I.C...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Quiz Crossword Mar. 20, 2000 | 3/20/2000 | See Source »

Quiet Hawk's people claim to be descended from a man named William Sherman, who they say was a member of the original Paugussett tribe. Sherman was born in New York in 1825 and spent his youth whaling before arriving in Trumbull at age 32. It was he who bought the quarter-acre lot in 1875 and preserved it as the tribe's then only reservation. Sherman's race in the 1880 Census was listed as "Indian." He was identified as a Paugussett in his newspaper obituary in 1886, and in two books published shortly before he died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Lost Tribe? | 3/6/2000 | See Source »

Osborne, a PBHA alumna and former Disney executive who lives in Sherman Oaks, Calif., will lead West Coast efforts for the campaign, which has not yet officially started...

Author: By Edward B. Colby, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Duehay Will Lead $7 Million PBHA Campaign | 2/22/2000 | See Source »

...year-old would automatically be remanded to an adult court. But 1975 law required probable cause for that to happen. If the case stays in juvenile court, Skakel would probably draw no jail time even if convicted. (The model in 1975 was juvenile rehabilitation.) If the case is remanded, Sherman has the right to appeal, a process that could take years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Crime In The Clan | 1/31/2000 | See Source »

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