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...meaningful or entertaining. CEO Waring Hudsucker takes a running start from the end of the long boardroom table to dive through the glass en route to a majestic conclusion. The next executive to try the same meets with plexiglass. Even the closing scenes when Barnes faces death from the 44th floor has its great moments. These are innovative takes on the physical possibilities of office tower suicides, but the Coens set a tone early on they cannot keep up, and the fragmentary vision never comes together...

Author: By Thomas Madsen, | Title: 'The Hudsucker Proxy' Stands in for Real Satire | 4/14/1994 | See Source »

...neither his slipperiness nor his offers to pay $27,000 for each Search ; Block officer killed could prevent the systematic liquidation of 26 of Escobar's closest collaborators. By last Wednesday, Escobar's 44th birthday, he had been a fugitive for 499 days and was growing weary; ulcer medicine found in the house where he was killed indicates he was also unwell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Escobar's Dead End | 12/13/1993 | See Source »

...front steps of the Dan Quayle museum in Huntington, Indiana, John Herrenden, a straw-haired 10-year-old in a Notre Dame baseball cap, is practicing the free-market entrepreneurialism once preached by the 44th Vice President of the United States: he's selling cups of Kool-Aid at 10 cents a pop. The flavor? "I think it's red," he says. "R-e-d," he adds, slowly and seriously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dispatches: The Quayle Museum Is No Joke | 6/28/1993 | See Source »

Even if she forever remains legally a part of the family, Diana has made it clear in recent weeks that she relishes the prospect of going her own way. On the weekend of Nov. 14, while Charles was home celebrating his 44th birthday, Diana made a high-profile trip to Paris that turned into a triumph. Looking relaxed and radiant, she spent nearly two hours with the Mitterrands, much of it with the President himself. She appears confident discussing humanitarian and social issues in such powerful surroundings and invariably wins the rapt attention of Presidents and ministers with a distinctly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Princess Diana and Prince Charles: Separate Lives | 11/30/1992 | See Source »

...been pushing Syria to take a more active role in securing the hostages' freedom. It was no accident that President Bush sent Syrian President Hafez Assad a warm congratulatory message on the 44th anniversary of Syrian independence last week. Syria's influence over Hizballah has been partly limited by the fact that Damascus is a supporter of the Shi'ite Amal, a secular Muslim group that continues to fight fierce battles with the fundamentalist Hizballah. But Hussein Musawi, leader of a pro-Syrian faction within Hizballah, is now believed to have taken control of the American hostages held...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Games Captors Play | 4/30/1990 | See Source »

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