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...Hallat, who was also a hostage, pleaded in vain for Seurat's release. As his condition worsened, a Shi'ite commander volunteered a transfusion. "You are becoming a Shi'ite," joked a captor after Seurat was given blood. In fact, the researcher was dying. By then French Hostages Marcel Carton and Marcel Fontaine had been added to the group. "So I am going to die," Seurat told his friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Three Years in the Belly of Beirut | 5/23/1988 | See Source »

...Beirut the ordeal of the three French hostages ended as abruptly as it had begun. Last Wednesday evening a Mercedes roared up to the Summerland Hotel, carrying Diplomats Marcel Carton and Marcel Fontaine and Journalist Jean-Paul Kauffmann, who had been held captive since 1985. Syrian security forces hustled the men to Beirut International Airport, and by the next morning they arrived in Paris for a joyous reunion with their families...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hostages By Negotiation and by the Sword | 5/16/1988 | See Source »

...please") and popcorn that comes in huge buckets ("I don't need that much roofing insulation"). His musings on childhood are especially evocative, whether conveying a five-year-old's restlessness at being dragged along to the bank by his mother or joy at finding an empty refrigerator carton. "When you're a kid," says Seinfeld, "that's the closest you're gonna come to havin' your own apartment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Stand-Up Comedy On a Roll | 8/24/1987 | See Source »

While we're at it, what is meant by homogenized milk? I assume it means the milk is treated so that the stuff on the top of the carton is the same as the stuff on the bottom. But if it's all milk, why do you need to homogenize...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: Avoiding Bugbears, Hopefully | 3/25/1987 | See Source »

...Marcel Carton and Marcel Fontaine have been moved to Anjar. They are in Ghazi Kenaan's custody within the frame of a plan to release them along with six American hostages," Voice of Lebanon said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Release of Beirut Hostages Anticipated | 11/1/1986 | See Source »

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