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...fact about almost every debtor in real trouble is that he has no idea how much he owes-much less what exorbitant interest he is usually paying. "The first thing we have to do is sit down and figure out what actually gets spent in the home," says Mel Stiller, head of the four advisers who process 1,700 cases a year at the C.C.C.S. in Boston. "People will figure the major items like rent and food, but they don't stop to consider the dinners out or the haircuts or the newspapers. Those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The American Way of Debt | 5/31/1982 | See Source »

...plot line: Aggy (Angela Paton), ex-Wife from hillbilly country, remeets ex-Husband Berto (Jerry Stiller), a failed inventor. Her ostensible purpose is repossession of mingy personal belongings. Her real purpose: repossession of Hubby, a toasty-warm, sentimental, well-endowed Mediterranean stud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Italo-Boffo | 6/2/1980 | See Source »

...rush of the modern street and to venture into the lucid stillness of an old place, maybe an art museum, of finer craftsmanship and the echos of time. This novel hauntingly portrays contemporary life, always going past it, past the preoccupations and manias of the moment, to a longer, stiller perspective...

Author: By F. MARK Muro, | Title: Passengers in Transit | 5/8/1980 | See Source »

...rash of espionage cases followed defection to the West of Lieut. Werner Stiller, a key officer in East Berlin's state security apparatus. Stiller, who was actually a West German agent, identified a number of East German spies working in West Germany. Since his defection, 14 suspects have been arrested, and 18 others have escaped to the East...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: Sexy Spies | 4/2/1979 | See Source »

That was the end of Reel I. After debriefing Stiller, West German agents began rounding up suspects he had identified as spies who were supplying East Germany with information about the Federal Republic's civilian nuclear-power program and about disposition of West German and U.S. military units...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: The S-Bahn Spy | 2/5/1979 | See Source »

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