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...ignition, the entire display is "essentially a one-man show." He leaves little doubt who that man is. "Roly is like an actor who goes onstage," explains John Decker of Paines. "He's the one who presses the buttons. If Roly isn't feeling up to snuff, he'll put on a lousy fireworks display. It's a fine art. You have to have an artistic flair for entertaining...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magic in the Daylight | 8/3/1981 | See Source »

Coke paraphernalia are openly displayed in "head shops" such as Washington's Pleasure Chest and Lady Snow's in Hollywood. Artifacts include gleaming jade cutting stones, gold razor blades to chop the coke crystals and tiny brown bottles for sniffing (an antique gold Tiffany snuff bottle capable of holding two grams sold for $28,000 in Beverly Hills last year to an Iranian). Items like silver and gold sniffing spoons are flaunted on chains around the users' necks. The process of spreading the coke on a table in "lines" for sniffing is as elaborate and careful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cocaine: Middle Class High | 7/6/1981 | See Source »

...unit than police station. Its inmates have one common ambition: survival-from perpetrators and pistols, alcoholism and insanity, suicide and divorce. These are choirboys at the end of the song. Their angst is echoed on the mean streets just below the topiary of Beverly Hills: heroin, child abuse, pornography, snuff films and bizarre murder. When Film Studio Boss Nigel St. Claire is found with two .38-cal. bullets in his face, Al Mackey and Marty Welborn, a couple of Wambaugh's best creations, are called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Those Blues in the Knights | 6/8/1981 | See Source »

...taxmen are frankly concerned about the proliferation of anti-tax movements. The number of tax protests has nearly doubled in the past two years, and the IRS fears they will spread like crab grass if not swiftly curbed. So far this year the agency has taken legal steps to snuff out tax rebellions in Washington, Connecticut and Michigan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Knights of the Tax Table | 3/9/1981 | See Source »

...running ads that make inaccurate and misleading price comparisons between the two companies. Jartran has fought back, alleging that U-Haul set "predatory" prices that were aimed at driving Jartran off the road. Protests Ryder: "We're offering good, clean competition. Ryder and U-Haul are trying to snuff us out before we get big." In the meantime, James Ryder is determined to keep on truckin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ryder vs. Ryder | 1/12/1981 | See Source »

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