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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...doesn't make much sense for someone who is a defendant in a civil rights case to stand up and tell a racist joke," said Douglas Louison, the lawyer representing the officers in their suit. Louison said that while telling the joke "doesn't rise to a violation" of Constitutional rights or warrant additional charges, the incident suggests a lack of "sensitivity" on Paolillo's part...

Author: By Spencer S. Hsu, | Title: Police Chief Reportedly Told Racist Joke | 5/25/1988 | See Source »

...Maybe an easier way to approach this is, would you tell me what your literary efforts have been in the field of fiction within the last 20 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Trespassers Will Be Prosecuted IN SEARCH OF J.D. SALINGER | 5/23/1988 | See Source »

...Could I tell you or would I tell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Trespassers Will Be Prosecuted IN SEARCH OF J.D. SALINGER | 5/23/1988 | See Source »

...Hill working as an adviser to a group of conservative Senators. No sooner had he settled into his new job, he says, than "phones here all lit up. It was my old friends ((inside the Government)) saying, 'Let's go to lunch. We have so much to tell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Washington's Master Leakers | 5/23/1988 | See Source »

...memoirs since Andrew Jackson's time, but never with such haste and malign glee. Traditionally such books were more concerned with the virtues of policy than the vagaries of personality. Rarely were they published while a President was in office. Moreover, the archetypal insider stories were more kiss than tell: most, such as the spate of Roosevelt and Kennedy books, were unabashed hagiographies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Reagan's a Target | 5/23/1988 | See Source »

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