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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to Nussbaum, Steinberg, 47, assumed such total control of her life that she could not eat or leave their Greenwich Village apartment without his permission. One night last November, she said, he ordered her and Lisa to eat hot pepper, forcing them to drink glass after glass of tap water. A bit later, while Nussbaum was in the bathroom, Steinberg came in bearing in his arms the bruised and unconscious girl. When Nussbaum asked what had happened, she testified, Steinberg replied, "What's the difference what happened? This is your child. Hasn't this gone far enough?" He then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hedda's Hellish Tale | 12/12/1988 | See Source »

...council also called for the establishment of special search committees to tap perspective "minority and women applicants in departments underutilizing" members of those groups...

Author: By Joseph R. Palmore, | Title: Council Calls for More Minority, Women Faculty | 12/5/1988 | See Source »

Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci asked the city manager to give him a breakdown of the chemicals used in processing tap water--aluminum sulfate, a fluoride compound, chlorine for disinfection, sodium hydroxide for corrosion control and calcium hyperchloride to balance pH levels...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: Council Questions Water Plan | 11/29/1988 | See Source »

...hits, and my plane went into a dive. Before bailing out, I loosed a Maverick in the general direction of Benghazi, unfortunately destroying a nearby village in the process. But as I drifted toward Libya in my parachute, I knew my next move. All I had to do was tap a few keys, go back to the program's main menu and choose another mission. This time I think I'll intercept that Soviet Tu-95D Bear reconnaissance plane heading for East Germany and blast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: I Flew the Stealth Fighter | 11/21/1988 | See Source »

...Convinced she was merely a talented minor, he departed. Then Graham Greene weighed in, during his tenure as film critic for the British magazine Night and Day: "In Captain January she wore trousers with the mature suggestiveness of a Dietrich: her neat and well-developed rump twisted in the tap dance: her eyes had a sidelong, searching coquetry." That passage cost more than $12,000 in libel damages. Greene and the editors learned in court what Alice Faye had found on the set: to be an adult around Shirley Temple "was a pretty thankless job. You had to work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Iron Whim CHILD STAR: by Shirley Temple Black SHIRLEY TEMPLE: AMERICAN PRINCESS by Anne Edwards Morrow | 11/14/1988 | See Source »

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