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...current crop of U.S. figure skaters, had just finished a practice session for last week's national championships in Detroit, when a man approached her from behind. Wordlessly, without warning, he delivered a violent blow to her right leg with a clublike object. Some witnesses thought it was a crowbar, others a baseball bat. No one knows for sure because the assailant vanished at once as a crowd gathered around the hysterical skater. Her father carried her off in his arms like a child. She was treated at a hospital and released...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'Why? It Hurts So Bad. Why Me?' | 1/17/1994 | See Source »

...certain unreality here." But the unreality I saw lay in his perception and approach. I was hearing something I had only read about, seen in old Dennis Hopper movies, and heard my parents reminisce about: unapologetic, furious and bitter establishment-bashing. "I don't enjoy taking a crowbar" to the system, Brown said, but it was clear that he enjoyed it very much...

Author: By Jordan Schreiber, | Title: 1-800-Vote-Brown | 1/8/1992 | See Source »

Suppose, Jon, that I decided I had something to gain in taking your life. I could accomplish this by asserting violence against your physical resistance--I could beat you to death with a crowbar or slash your throat with a knife. This would certainly be a horrible crime. But is it the physical violence against your persistent resistance that distinguishes the act as a crime...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rape Is Not a Crime of Violence Only | 3/16/1991 | See Source »

Hills refused to comment on Sato's remarks, but her staff noted that she is known as the Velvet Crowbar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMACY: Pretty Cute For a Crowbar | 7/30/1990 | See Source »

...save his ego from the prospect of settling in less than spacious surroundings when he arrived early one recent morning at the London headquarters of his new weekly newspaper, the European. Staffers say he was dismayed not to find a king-size office for himself, and used a crowbar to break into the better proportioned lair of the managing director. When its owner showed up some time later, he was stunned to find his chair occupied by his boss. The executive lost his turf, but so far has kept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grapevine: May 28, 1990 | 5/28/1990 | See Source »

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