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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jake narrates the movie in a self-conscious, confessional tone while driving a BMW and wearing a yuppie suit. His monologue, filled with whiny rationalizations for his non-committal lifestyle, is primarily concerned with being "normal". He first bemoans the fact that all his friends have married while he has not, and then goes on to detail exactly how abnormal his life has been. The action of the movie is interspersed with these monologues...

Author: By Edith Replogle, | Title: "Naked in New York" Clothes Bland Fare in Faux Zaniness | 5/13/1994 | See Source »

...began to detect a link between the bomb in Awad's suitcase and the one that had blown a hole in the Pan Am jet three weeks earlier. But U.S. policy did not yet support a pursuit of Rashid. So Awad stayed where he was, content with the passport, BMW and $1,750-a-month salary offered by the grateful Swiss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Hero's Unwelcome | 5/9/1994 | See Source »

...group formed to find the child was delayed when its leader, another regent, died in the crash of his new BMW in East Bengal. But in 1992 emissaries to the Tibetan district of Lhathok located an apple-cheeked, appropriately aged boy named Ugen Thinley, son of a shepherd named Dondup and his wife Lolaga. Local lamas reported that at his birth rainbows had appeared and conch shells sounded, and a bird alighted on his father's tent and "sang a beautiful song." The joyous news was faxed to the Dalai Lama, who affirmed the choice with his own prophetic dreams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battle of the Future Buddhas | 5/2/1994 | See Source »

...secretary was similarly dispatched. With two knives grabbed from the kitchen, the assailants hacked at their victims' throats, chests and arms so savagely that a knife blade was broken. An hour after arriving, Boyerahmadi calmly collected the trio's passports, and the men drove off in an orange BMW. The guards failed to notice that Vakili's and Azadi's shirts were drenched in blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Tehran Connection | 3/21/1994 | See Source »

...late arrival coming to join the gathering. Suddenly someone shouted in Farsi, "You sons of whores!" and two gunmen opened fire. Dastmalchi threw himself backward under a table and played dead. The shooting lasted no more than a minute, then the gunmen fled in a dark blue BMW. Sharafkandi and two associates were killed instantly, and a third man died shortly afterward in the hospital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Tehran Connection | 3/21/1994 | See Source »

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