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...ACCUSERS. Last week on the tabloid news show Hard Copy, Blanca Francia, who was Jackson's personal maid, proclaimed that the star showered and slept with boys -- giving them the nickname "Rubba," meaning he rubbed the boys against his genitals -- and may have abused these children, including her own son. Such assertions earned her 15 minutes of notoriety and a reputed five- figure honorarium. A judge refused to issue a gag order that might prevent ) others from telling all (or making...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Facing the Music | 12/27/1993 | See Source »

...characters resemble their textual selves. Padilla's Miranda captures the naive schoolgirl, gushing effusively in the face of her "brave new world." Two actors, Blanca Hovey and Alice Ristroph, following timehonored technique, divide the role of the spirit, Ariel. Their petulant, childish rendition fit the bill perfectly...

Author: By Edward P. Mcbride, | Title: Tempest Creates Bleak Landscape | 4/15/1993 | See Source »

...university teachers say it is increasingly hard to get students to believe socialism will ever provide them with the standard of living they want. "They complain about a lack of stylish clothes," says Blanca Munster Infante, 30, a professor of Marxism at one of Havana's advanced polytechnic institutes. "They don't reject socialism, but they are pessimistic about making it work. They are disillusioned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cuba: Dancing the Socialist Line | 8/12/1991 | See Source »

Bright sun warmed some of the best ski competition of the Games in the women's and men's giant slaloms. The leader after the women's first run was Blanca Fernandez-Ochoa, a Spaniard (and, reporters told each other happily, a sometime bullfighter) whose brother Paco won the slalom at the '72 Games in Sapporo. Blanca, a powerful, driving skier, looked so strong that Spanish fans phoned to Calgary for champagne as they waited for the second...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: Champagne Runs | 3/7/1988 | See Source »

...weak voice was just above a whisper. "We need help. Can you please help us?" Border Patrol Agent Stanley Saathoff turned a crank to unlock the door of a red Missouri Pacific boxcar sitting on a siding in the small town of Sierra Blanca, 90 miles southeast of El Paso. A naked young man threw himself into the startled agent's arms. "You've been sent from heaven," the man moaned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Boxcar That Became a Coffin | 7/13/1987 | See Source »

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