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...Technology and an inveterate high-tech tinkerer on weekends, proposed that the two try to market a memory board, which stores information, that he had designed in his spare time. With $6,000 they bought inventory and printing materials and started assembling the boards in the Harp home. Styrofoam packing materials were stored in a downstairs shower; the dining room became a testing area...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computer Coup | 3/22/1982 | See Source »

...They all carry styrofoam coffee cups bearing the words, "It is our pleasure to serve...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Pretender to the Throne | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

Garp Creator John Irving strikes again The pieces of the dream machine are in place. Scaffolding has been erected against a brick building for a shot involving a small boy who nearly falls off a roof. At the edge of a vast lawn, a fake rock wall and Styrofoam cannon mark the location of the sex scene. The trucks that moved the cameras, props and coils of electrical spaghetti have been converted into Teamster poker parlors. For the hot, thirsty crew that has assembled jv this summer on the bosky Georgian campus of the Millbrook School near Poughkeepsie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life into Art: Novelist John Irving | 8/31/1981 | See Source »

When the trial began three years ago, the family's involvement grew, as the two remaining children-William, 30, and Mary, 23-chauffeured witnesses and fetched documents. At center stage, their feisty father, using a Styrofoam model of the scene complete with toy cars, stressed numerous inconsistencies in the officers' testimony. He discredited the meager evidence that Bowden had been carrying a gun. He produced as a witness a reporter who, having ridden with the officers and listened to the episode while lying on the floor of their car, testified that there had been no warning shouts. Finally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Three Wrongs That Were Righted | 1/12/1981 | See Source »

...only one of twelve costumes he dons to amuse young patients. At Christmas he may be dressed as Santa Claus, and around July 4 as Uncle Sam. Schmidt drives to and from work in a vehicle that he calls a "Plaquemobile," a white Volkswagen topped by a king-size Styrofoam molar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Drilling for New Business | 12/1/1980 | See Source »

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