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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Later that year, not to let his new wealth go to waste, he bought the Magna Casta for $1.5 million. The real one, Signed by Bad King John in 1215. He donated the document, which had been held all those years by an aristocratic English family, to the National Archives in Washington...

Author: By Joseph F Kahn, | Title: Ross Perot: What to Do With Billions | 7/4/1985 | See Source »

...beautiful woman who lives on the island with her two young sons while her husband runs his huge chemical company and philanders back home in Chicago. Their love affair is passionate and brief; she sends him packing when he will not abandon risky underwater explorations and his dream of wealth. But spies employed by Marianne's husband have caught her and Mark on film in compromising positions. He is in big trouble even before he finds a haul worth $300 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Riches to Rags an Innocent Millionaire: by Stephen Vizinczey | 6/17/1985 | See Source »

...especially pleasing section on Vesalius, Paracelsus and Harvey. The chapters on Darwin and Freud, and the saga of sea floor spreading, a revolution in earth science, are also splendidly wrought, commendable for their cogency and conciseness. Cohen's analysis focuses on revolutionary significance, but he simultaneously yields a wealth of stimulating narrative history...

Author: By T. NICHOLAS Dawidoff, | Title: Tracing Revolutions | 6/5/1985 | See Source »

...film's bromidic theme -- that wealth brings not friendship but isolation and that having too much money is just about as bad as having too little -- could suit both the comic's style and his very public private life. Alas, autobiography and farce refuse to jell. Though John Candy (as an overweight catcher who is suggested for the position of Pryor's "designated eater") and especially Stephen Collins (as a smug, conniving wimp of a lawyer) are funny enough, the picture seems intent on drawing morals instead of laughs. Viewers may feel like demanding their own investment in the film...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Greed Screed Brewster's Millions | 6/3/1985 | See Source »

Despite Mountbatten's massive size, the evenhanded narrative moves with enormous grace and wit. This affectionate character study of a nearly extinct species can also be read as a fascinating gloss on World War II, or as a social history of wealth and privilege in decline. It was privilege, in the end, that killed Mountbatten. His habit over the decades was to spend his summers at Classiebawn Castle, an elegant old pile he owned in the Republic of Ireland. It will stand as one of history's sad ironies that Mountbatten had never taken part in the dispute over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Great Britain's Uncle Dickie Mountbatten | 5/13/1985 | See Source »

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