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...critics or the ads. This is one of the worst films ever released. And Justice for All attacks the evils of our judicial system with all the subtlety and flow of random hammer blows. Injustices are hurled at you for two hours--with Al Pacino donning the knight's armor and defending them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: From Hollywood for the Holidays | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

...Street, and the crowd surged through. Once inside the compound, some headed for the ambassador's residence, where the servants offered no resistance (there has been no U.S. ambassador in Tehran since William Sullivan left in April). Others tried to take over the chancellery but found it protected with armor plating and grillwork. Using bullhorns, they shouted at the occupants: "Give up and you won't be harmed! If you don't give up, you will be killed!" As the attackers struggled to get inside, other protesters and a crowd of curiosity seekers clambered over the embassy walls and swarmed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blackmailing the U.S. | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

During the next five days, at least 100 protesters died as the new strongman used armor and fighter planes to crush a general strike called by the million-member Bolivian Central Labor Federation (COB). The death toll might have been higher had Natusch not stationed troops at the mines outside the capital to prevent militant workers from following their usual practice of heading for La Paz with satchels of dynamite whenever a coup takes place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOLIVIA: Next: No. 189? | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

...king somewhat baffled and spoke to St. John. And so the challenge was accepted, and the knights went to separate sides of the great field. It was a vast plain with great wooden and stone stands. And all the maidens crowded the seats, while the knights donned their armor...

Author: By Faithful Scribe, | Title: Green Meanies | 10/20/1979 | See Source »

...John. And one by one on the field, the knights fell from their horses. The rushes were so great that lances would splinter when they crashed with a shield. And blood streamed from everywhere, as the knights swung their swords with such violence that they cut through the armor clear to the skin...

Author: By Faithful Scribe, | Title: Green Meanies | 10/20/1979 | See Source »

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