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...closing argument last Wednesday by tacking a single picture to the courtroom bulletin board. The full-color glossy showed the TV room of the Menendez mansion in Beverly Hills, California, patriarch Jose lifeless on a couch, his wife Kitty in a smashed and bloodied heap on the floor. In blunt language that veered from the schoolmarmish to the sarcastic, Bozanich delivered her message: "Lyle Menendez, accompanied by his brother, planned this murder . . . this was an intentional killing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Waiting for the Verdicts | 12/20/1993 | See Source »

...relentlessly aggressive drumwork. From there, Graffin's raspy singing and Mr.Brett's sloppy guitar take over. The melody of"Kerosene" is understated but irrepressible anddoesn't reach its critical mass until the chorus,when it becomes downright anthemic in its sweepand drama. The lyrics of "kerosene" are adisarmingly blunt look at the world ofhomelessness, where men and women die fromexposure, where "shelter is the privilege of thesane and competent," and where burning kerosenekeeps people warm...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The revival is here | 11/18/1993 | See Source »

Stanfield Professor of International Peace Robert O. Keohane was even more blunt: "Anyone who's taken any economics and understood it is in favor of NAFTA...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Resounding Yes | 11/17/1993 | See Source »

...them to be missed. The Wine-Dark Sea (Norton; 261 pages; $22) is the 16th installment of what devotees call the Aubrey/Maturin novels. All are set in the early 19th century, during the period of the Napoleonic Wars, and all feature the same two heroes: Jack Aubrey, a blunt, brave captain in the British Royal Navy, and Stephen Maturin, a ship's surgeon, amateur naturalist and sometimes spy for His Majesty's government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sailing Off to the Past | 11/8/1993 | See Source »

...parent and your kid has "blunt" onhis shirt you may not realize it, but if you'reeducated on the matter, you may know your kid isheaded for trouble," Plante said...

Author: By John Wagley, | Title: Marijuana-Laced Cigars in Vogue | 10/28/1993 | See Source »

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