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...halt. Inside were two well-known settlers from Kedumim, Shimon Kav, 41, and Yosef Ferber, 48. The Arab youths say they told the driver to go away. The settlers say they were pelted with stones, and in self-defense Kav sprayed bullets from an Uzi submachine gun. Abdul Basset Mahmoud Abdullah, 27, was killed instantly, and a second Arab was wounded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East Neighbor Against Neighbor | 2/22/1988 | See Source »

...Examiner's new editor, Burgin signed up Columnists Thompson and Cyra McFadden, author of The Serial, a send-up of Marin County mores. Hearst wooed away Warren Hinckle, an eccentric Chronicle columnist who bludgeons miscreants, real and imagined, in print and never goes anywhere without his basset hound, Bentley. When Frank McCulloch, 66, a veteran journalist who had just retired as executive editor of the California- based McClatchy Newspapers, interviewed Burgin for a magazine story, Burgin persuaded McCulloch within 15 minutes to become the paper's managing editor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: In His Grandfather's Footsteps | 2/3/1986 | See Source »

Although Hutton does succeed in endearing himself to the audience with his basset-hound looks and giggly naivete, he is restricted by Clark's homogenous direction and lack of originality. In addition to boring us with 45 endless minutes of Jimmy plastering his insignia on everything in sight. Clark refuses to let his character develop anything but superficial personalities. Admittedly appealing in a teddy-bearish sort of way. Hutton's Lynch is essentially nothing more than an anti-social wise guy whose highly limited intelligence seriously puts into question his ability to evade detection from the police for as long...

Author: By Cristina V. Coletta, | Title: Running 'Em Out Of Business | 3/1/1985 | See Source »

...that, of course, is very nice and much appreciated by Broderick, who turned 21 in March. He started thinking about being an actor when he was two, and until quite recently no one would hire him for anything. But what really puts fire into his basset-hound brown eyes is not the chance for big money or even the enthusiastic applause he receives every night in Brighton Beach Memoirs. It is a bike he parks backstage at the Alvin Theater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Twenty-One, Going on 15 (or 50) | 6/6/1983 | See Source »

Tonight an army doctor has called in a civilian force to protect us. The heads of the men have been shaved and their ears seem too big under their caps. Their uniforms look too small or too big and they have basset hound eyes from a lifetime of taking orders. But they stay up all night so the regular troops can sleep on the cold tiles of the town square...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hunters Are Hunted | 3/15/1982 | See Source »

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