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Dates: during 1980-1989
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None of this means, though, that the pure vigor and passion can't put enough spin on the story to provoke a certain exhilaration. In this jewel-studded dagger-edged world, desperate passions in unshaded colors often seem more believable than subtleties could in their ability to ignite passions and away a throne. "Look," cries John at one point, cowering away from Richard. "He's got a knife!" "A knife," his mother screams back, "Of course he has knife! We all have knives! It's 1183 and we're barbarians!" For barbarians, the Plantagenets pack in impressive wallop...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: King of the Forest | 3/23/1982 | See Source »

...Graham said that DNA research already being conducted in Cambridge has yet to produce any new jobs, saying. "I haven't seen one spin...

Author: By Gilbert Fuchsberg, | Title: Council Debates MIT Research Facility | 3/9/1982 | See Source »

...response to Graham's concerns about jobs. Healy said that biological and DNA research is "not a job-intensive operation" and that the Whitehead Institute would someday stimulate manufacturing "spin-offs" and as a result, more positions for Cambridge residents...

Author: By Gilbert Fuchsberg, | Title: Council Debates MIT Research Facility | 3/9/1982 | See Source »

Jakob is a character invented by Russell McCormmach, 48, a professor of the history of science at Johns Hopkins University. "After years of work on rather standard books of history for the specialist," says McCormmach, "I decided to try a kind of spin-off from scholarly material. Enter Victor." But if the physicist is made of whole cloth, the other personae of this remarkable exercise in fiction and historiography are not, and they rise from the pages as Jakob remembers them and their contributions to physics. There is the fascinating Scotsman James Clerk Maxwell, who forged the theory of electromagnetism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lamentations | 3/1/1982 | See Source »

...about Cambodia. When Klein looked up the original TIME piece last week, he discovered that three of the four quotes in it had been resurrected by Jones and presented in the New York Times Magazine a year later as fresh interviews. Did Jones simply use his old notebook to spin a grander tale? Times Executive Editor Abe Rosenthal refuses to speculate. Says he: "As far as I'm concerned, the man, until somebody proves otherwise, is totally honest." Only Jones can say for sure, and no one is answering his phone in Spain. Vows Klein: "We intend to clear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Hoax Hunt | 3/1/1982 | See Source »

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