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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mary Ellen Preusser, who lost her council seat in the 1979 election, had spent $11,000 and raised only about $6000; challenger Alice Wolf had received $7518 and spent...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: '81 City Council Campaign Costliest in Local History | 10/27/1981 | See Source »

...liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) slate members are traditionally the heaviest spenders in local campaigns, and this year is no exception--Wylie, Wolf, Preusser, Abt, Duehay and David Sullivan have all been endorsed...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: '81 City Council Campaign Costliest in Local History | 10/27/1981 | See Source »

...shrewd one." Yet, oddly, people do not seem to object to being gossiped about as much as they once did. After all, as macrogossip has instructed, any gossip is a form of attention, a sort of evanescent celebrity. Even gossip works to keep away what Saul Bellow called "the wolf of insignificance." Privacy is not the highest priority; on the contrary, a certain emotional exhibitionism has been gaining ground. Of course, it can get out of hand: a man happy enough to be gossiped about as the office philanderer might grow queasy at learning that gossip is calling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Morals of Gossip | 10/26/1981 | See Source »

CITY COUNCIL CANDIDATE Alice Wolf used someone's picture without authorization on one of her campaign leaflets, so her workers had to spend a few days rectifying the error with black crayon. And there was an unsigned leaflet attacking incumbent councilor David Sullivan in language safely described as strong. But not much more; considering the history of the city's political campaigns, it's been a placid fall. In fact, only one image really stands out: council candidate Wendy Abt, a stunned look on her face, fighting back tears after the Rent Control Task Force convention denied her its endorsement...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Cambridge 1983? | 10/19/1981 | See Source »

...lethal 14-year-old. His eyes are slate gray, flashing to blue when he laughs. Mischief is etched across his face as a bittersweet smile. Like his crew, he is dressed in mugger's uniform: designer jeans, T shirt and $45 Pumas, the starched laces neatly untied. A wolf in expensive sneakers, Baby Love is a school dropout, one of more than 800,000 between the ages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Brooklyn: A Wolf in $45 Sneakers | 10/12/1981 | See Source »

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