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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...revolutionized the now well-known genre of detective fiction. From Red Harvest through The Maltese Falcon. The Thin Man and a hundred more short stories, he developed and became the epitome of the hard-boiled but literate writer. He started with short stories in H.L. Mencken's The Smart Set, the home of such luminaries as Fitzgerald and Lewis, Huxley and Maugham, and ended up with the federal government trying to have his body removed from Arlington National Cemetery since Communist bones there would presumably pervert the sacredness of row after row of white crosses. His long-time companion, Lillian...

Author: By Thomas Hines, | Title: A Continental Op | 7/21/1981 | See Source »

...entirely competent, a nominee of potentially great distinction," said Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe. Yale Law Professor Paul Gewirtz termed O'Connor "smart, fair, self-confident and altogether at home with technical legal issues." Michigan Law's Yale Kamisar, a judicial liberal, said of Reagan: "Give the devil his due; it was a pretty good appointment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Brethren's First Sister: Sandra Day O'Connor, | 7/20/1981 | See Source »

...serve to keep barbells from crashing through the floor. Inside, everything is sweaty, and but for the air-conditioning it would be sweatier still. I knew Bob in grade school, said "hi" when we passed in the hall in high school. He was a funny, pleasant guy, not really smart, thin and wiry, not big enough for most sports, but tough. Mostly he liked to horse around. Not anymore. Now he lives in the gym, with twice-a-day workouts, long exhausting regimens of pulling and pushing and lifting. Every few minutes he stops to check one muscle or another...

Author: By William E. Mckibban, | Title: Self-Improvement | 7/14/1981 | See Source »

...from on top of a jeep. Breaking down into couples, the six alternately hug, slice meat, look tough, read maps through glasses of Chablis, practice foreplay, wade in rivers, listen to New Wave on a tape recorder, and become good friends with the Masai tribesmen, who obviously know a smart buy when they see one. As the caption reads: "The magnificent Masai Africa's warriors of the ancient plains now live by and for their cattle. Below left snap-front cotton shirt by Reminiscence...etc. etc." Or as it says in another caption, "The clothes of the Kilamanjaro...

Author: By Thomas Hines, | Title: The Green Hills of Manhattan | 7/7/1981 | See Source »

...motor vehicles. At the same time, an ambitious young Mitsubishi engineer named Teruo Tojo was shifting over from work on the firm's famed Zero fighter plane to the design of buses and trucks for peacetime. As things turned out, the switch from planes to cars proved a smart one for all concerned. Mitsubishi Motors Corp., now a subsidiary of MHI, has become Japan's fourth largest automaker (fiscal 1980 sales: $5.2 billion), and next week Tojo, 66, will become the firm's president and chief executive officer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At the Controls of Mitsubishi | 6/29/1981 | See Source »

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