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...Jersey. Jackson was the only representative from any of the other major black civil-rights organizations to show up. Chavis seemed to be alluding to absentees as well as critics when he declared, "The last time I checked my back, it was someone of African descent that put the dagger in and twisted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Risky Association | 6/27/1994 | See Source »

Thus the stage was set for one of the most bizarre technology-policy battles ever waged: the Clipper Chip war. Lined up on one side are the three-letter cloak-and-dagger agencies -- the NSA, the CIA and the FBI -- and key policymakers in the Clinton Administration (who are taking a surprisingly hard line on the encryption issue). Opposing them is an equally unlikely coalition of computer firms, civil libertarians, conservative columnists and a strange breed of cryptoanarchists who call themselves the cypherpunks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Should Keep the Keys? | 3/14/1994 | See Source »

...that's nice," Rietz joked, at which point Eckardt concluded, "Well then, I guess I'll have to send my team." Rietz assumed this was Eckardt doing his usual weird cloak-and-dagger routine. But only seven days later, Rietz said, he "put the pieces together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Figure Skater Tonya Harding: Tarnished Victory | 1/24/1994 | See Source »

...wife's version, Tajomaru fled after raping her and she found herself alone with her husband. She tried to make him kill her to relieve her of her shame, but he would not. Driven mad by the contemptuous look in his eyes, she fainted, and upon awakening found her dagger in his chest. In the husband's version, related by a medium, the wife wanted to escape with Tajomaru and told the bandit to kill him, but Tajomaru would not do it. The wife fled the scene and the bandit went after her, and then the husband committed suicide. Finally...

Author: By Joel Villasenor-ruiz, | Title: `Rashomon' Is Truly Classic, Even If Truth Is Unknowable | 12/2/1993 | See Source »

Concubine is an Eastern film whose subject, scope and nonstop bustle will be agreeable to Western moviegoers. Anyone can appreciate the splendor of the theatrical pageantry or the dagger eyes of Gong Li as a dragon lady whose only commandment is survival. The scenes in the Peking Opera School, where boys are caned for doing wrong or right, are no less horrifying than the later tableaux of public humiliation at the hands of the Maoists. But Chen clearly sympathizes with the schoolmasters. From such brutality, he suggests, artists are created. Concubine offers another moral: From the crushing cultural restrictions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reviews Cinema: Oct. 18, 1993 | 10/18/1993 | See Source »

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