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...brouhaha, Larry Flynt, is about to come under some official scrutiny. The U.S. Attorney in Los Angeles has launched an investigation to find out how Flynt got his hands on what was presumably closely guarded Government evidence. The mercurial publisher, basking in the media lights, claims that the tapes came from a Government agent. Flynt says he paid $25 million for them. Flynt, who is running for President on a platform that alleges various Government conspiracies, says his purpose here was to prove that De Lorean had been framed. Since he hardly seemed to have done that, Flynt late last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: The Case of the Purloined Tapes | 11/7/1983 | See Source »

...premiere this fall. Earlier this month, the admissions office released its own version of life at Harvard--starring real students, not Hollywood actors--as part of a new grassroots campaign to change the college's reputation among the masses. But though this 10-minute slide show with accompanying tape has already been screened in high schools across the country and will continue to be viewed for the next several years. First Affair in its one-time prime-time presentation probably skewed more people's visions about Harvard--including those of prospective students--than the admissions film will ever have...

Author: By Rebecca J. Joseph, | Title: Glossing Over College Life | 11/1/1983 | See Source »

...here." Tinny-sounding melodies of various sorts drift out of the compound's tents and fortified holes in the ground all day long. "I was listening to my radio," explained one grunt in his bunker at Post One, "until I got tired of the Arab music." His own tape player was broken. "I was going to put me on some Deep Purple, but I got ketchup on the batteries." Each Marine is permitted one can of beer a day. Many of them have read more during their months in Lebanon than ever before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: We All Knew the Hazards | 10/31/1983 | See Source »

When Advertising Executive and native Bostonian James Ryan, 52, got the itch to revisit his city's historic sights, he shrank from the prospect of whizzing past them on a crowded tour bus. Solution: he popped a prerecorded tape into his personal cassette player, consulted a small map that came with the tape, and set off by himself on foot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dividends: Reel Excursions | 10/31/1983 | See Source »

While the tape used such sound effects as chanting crowds and pealing bells to dramatize pre-Revolutionary War events, a relaxed narrator guided Ryan along Boston's Freedom Trail, even anticipating his questions about the locations of telephones and restrooms. Ryan rated the tour "first class." Said he: "It's fun to have your memory awakened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dividends: Reel Excursions | 10/31/1983 | See Source »

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