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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Historical novelty is a widespread preoccupation of mystery writers, whether to vary their stories or display newly found erudition or simply to write off a vacation trip on their tax returns. Ellis Peters offers her 14th chronicle of Brother Cadfael, a resolutely logical monk who is a 12th century forerunner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Many Guises of Mysteries | 2/1/1988 | See Source »

Drabinsky's Cineplex is a one-man marching band. No one can speak for the company but the boss. He logs half a million miles a year, inspiring the troops and scouting new acquisitions. The guy never rests, and when he does, he pays for it. Three weeks ago, while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Master of The Movies' | 1/25/1988 | See Source »

What no one realized was that, according to the Securities and Exchange Commission, the financial statements, the fat profits and the entire enterprise were part of an elaborate fiction. Instead of buying stocks for his customers, the SEC charged last week, Bloom used the $10 million to support a lavish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Whiz Kid Who Wasn't | 1/25/1988 | See Source »

If the calendar were changed to push finals before Christmas break, those luscious weeks of September, when the crowds have left the Cape, the Vineyard, Nantucket and the Hamptons would be pushed out of the lives of the faculty. In addition many faculty members have vacation from mid-December till...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Those Evil January-in-the-Caribbean Profs | 1/22/1988 | See Source »

DURING VACATION, 10 Harvard students were invited to a party at a nearby island. The next day, police discovered their bodies alongside some odd murder weapons: a bag of Doritos, an orgo book and some salad dressing.

Author: By James E. Canning, | Title: Ten Little Turkeys | 1/20/1988 | See Source »

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