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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Yet while many trial watchers were expecting the lengthy jail terms and huge fines and forfeitures that the Government sought, the judge seemed to be saying by his sentence that the U.S. Attorneys had gone a bit wild. (He gave Regan six months instead of three, he said, because he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money Angles: Too Much Firepower to Fit the Crime? | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

-- The judge was wise to pass a light sentence because, well, how bad is what Regan, et al, were charged with -- really?

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money Angles: Too Much Firepower to Fit the Crime? | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

One of her earliest memories was of "the light -- light all around." Georgia O'Keeffe spent her life trying to recapture that elemental radiance on paper and canvas. The quest began obscurely on the loam of Sun Prairie, Wis., and ended famously in the desert of Abiquiu, N. Mex. O...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poet of The Desert | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

After Stieglitz abandoned his family, he and O'Keeffe took up residence in upstate New York. There, before company, he would rise and lead her up the stairs. "We'd say we were going to have a nap," recalled O'Keeffe. "Then we'd make love. Afterwards he would take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poet of The Desert | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

In 1919 O'Keeffe exhibited the bold flower paintings that further inflamed her reputation. They have since become the staple of a prolific calendar and poster industry. But when the overripe irises and hollyhocks first appeared, the critics were intrigued, the public scandalized, the artist discomfited. When an interviewer remarked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poet of The Desert | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

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