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...breathless silence falls on the packed New Delhi movie hall that is showing the Hindi film Hum Se Na Takrana (Don't Confront Me). As the predominantly male audience watches transfixed, a scene shows two lusty sons of a rich landlord cornering a pretty, well-endowed maid in their plush bedroom. "Let me go," she implores, but the men's hands move toward her writhing body. The camera heightens the suggestion of what is to come without allowing the scene to become graphic; there is no nudity, but there is plenty of screaming and leering. When the deed is done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Romance and A Little Rape | 8/13/1990 | See Source »

...Breathless Mahoney spends the entire two hours of the film getting her ass slapped, her face slapped and her sultry kisses pushed aside by the ice man, Dick Tracy. She spends the rest of her air-time stupidly singing the backdrop to this music video of a movie...

Author: By Madhavi Sunder, | Title: Cool Colors Do Not A Great Movie Make | 6/29/1990 | See Source »

...careers. Sitting in a car outside a warehouse in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn, the men were looking for Huan ("Danny") Teng, 38, a Taiwanese believed to be one of America's kingpins of drug paraphernalia. They never found Teng, but what they discovered inside the building left them breathless. It was a vast, dungeon- like factory filled with machines for injecting, cooling and grinding plastic. Three Chinese workers in ragged garb glanced at their visitors just once before getting back to the business at hand: running an around-the-clock assembly line capable of producing 2 million crack vials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mountains Of Vile Vials | 6/4/1990 | See Source »

...back, and judging from the hordes of paparazzi trailing chimplike behind her at Cannes, there's a breathless public somewhere waiting for her next film. Now maybe they'll finally release her 1986 epic, Brenda Starr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pia Zadora Personality Prize | 5/28/1990 | See Source »

...Room 22 former California Governor Jerry Brown and a delegation of Democratic Party state leaders are just beginning a breathless one-day inspection tour in which they will boldly pass judgment on Hungarian democratic procedures. Brown is having trouble grasping the significance of the upcoming March 15 national holiday; this is akin to a Hungarian being mystified by American fireworks on July 4. For March 15 is the anniversary of the failed 1848 Hungarian revolution and the date previously favored by anti- Communist dissidents for illegal protests. A Forum leader explains that his party plans to press its rivals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hungary Hot Export: Campaign U | 3/19/1990 | See Source »

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