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...walked around the house, peering through windows. He thought he saw a mannequin sprawled on the floor, until he noticed a splotch of blood by its ear. When police and the coroner broke down the door, they found Cobain dead on the floor, a shotgun still pointed at his chin and, on a nearby counter, a suicide note penned in red ink, reportedly ending with the words "I love you, I love you," addressed, a source said, to Love and the couple's 19-month-old daughter Frances Bean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: Never Mind | 4/18/1994 | See Source »

...sick of our frightening nightmares (the other night we dreamt that there were weeds growing out of our chin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Take the G-Train | 3/24/1994 | See Source »

...about 5 ft. 6 in. tall, was probably almost indistinguishable from a modern human. Above the neck -- well, these were still primitive humans. The skulls have flattened foreheads and prominent brow ridges like those of a gorilla or chimpanzee, and the jawbone shows no hint of anything resembling a chin. Braincases got bigger and bigger over the years, but at first an adult H. erectus probably had a brain no larger than that of a modern four-year-old. Anyone who has spent time with a four-year-old, though, knows that such a brain can perform impressive feats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Man Began | 3/14/1994 | See Source »

Larry Wu-Tai Chin, charged in 1985 with spying for China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: My Country for a Rolex | 3/7/1994 | See Source »

...wondered how the lithe, scantily clad, and sexually uninhibited gypsy girl of Merimee's novel came to be transformed in the opera houses of mid-twentieth century America into the postured prima donna in the floor-lenght dress whose idea of sexual flirtation is to glue her chin to her chest and to peep out coquettishly from behind a feathered black fan. The initially negative reaction of the audience at Carmen's premiere in Paris (an audience who went to the Opera Comique expecting the equivalent of G-rated "family" opera) did not preclude its later phenomenal success, as more...

Author: By Jefferson Packer, | Title: The Phantoms of Opera's Divas | 2/24/1994 | See Source »

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