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During Reagan's speech a couple in the Dudley Common Room left the lounge sofa to play a game of pingpong...

Author: By Daniel Vilmure, | Title: A Tragedy for All | 1/30/1986 | See Source »

...imagine themselves as King Tut, Rudolf II of Prague or Lorenzo de' Medici, but there is no shortage of people who feel that with the right decorator, their homes might become facsimiles of English landed estates, complete with an old red setter molting on a new reproduction William Kent sofa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Brideshead Redecorated | 11/11/1985 | See Source »

...Providence jury acquitted Claus von Bulow, his defense lawyer, Thomas Puccio, arrived at his brand-new office in the Wall Street firm of Stroock & Stroock & Lavan. He was just in time to settle a dispute between his secretary and a decorator over where to put the black leather sofa and chair in relation to his black lacquer desk and bookcase. The firm's partner of two months should be greeting many a new client from behind that desk. For in the wake of his Von Bulow victory last week, commentators across the country are suddenly ranking him among the best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Puccio for the Defense | 6/24/1985 | See Source »

...mental deterioration. She also suffered from osteoporosis, a bone disease that frequently leads to fractures and pain. On March 4 her husband fulfilled what he said were his wife's wishes when he pumped two bullets from his 9-mm Luger into her temple as she lay on the sofa in their Fort Lauderdale condominium. Then he turned himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Merciless Jury | 5/27/1985 | See Source »

...with aura: "I would drift into . . . the sunlight yellow that surrounded her." Reality is hard to hold; at 17, Gloria finds herself staring hard at visitors, "because if I didn't keep my eyes on them they might all disappear in a puff of the . . . cigarette." She imagines a sofa as "a nest on the topmost branch of a tree where I'm safe and nothing can harm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Society's Child Once Upon a Time | 5/6/1985 | See Source »

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