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Third, Crowe makes the garage door opener serve as a consistent symbol of attachment. The set decorator (Clay Griffith) and set designer (Cosmas Demetriou) manage to place this middle class prop within easy grabbing distance anytime a character is about to propose a commitment...

Author: By Marc D. Zelanko, | Title: Sexy, Spunky and Single | 10/1/1992 | See Source »

Your May 21 article concerning the Cypriot-British dispute was magnificent. Karaolis and Demetriou are heroes in the eyes of all freedom loving people of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 11, 1956 | 6/11/1956 | See Source »

...cell in the Nicosia Central Prison's Block 8, a haggard young (23) tax clerk named Michael Karaolis told his blackshawled mother: "They're going to hang me." From the next cell Andreas Demetriou, also 23, and awaiting a similar fate, shouted the news to prisoners down the row. Field Marshal Sir John Harding, the doughty little Governor of Cyprus, had made a soldier's unpleasant decision: finding "no grounds for exercising Royal Prerogative of Mercy," the two young Greek Cypriots must hang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CYPRUS: Deepening Tragedy | 5/21/1956 | See Source »

...steeled itself to a hard course and engaged on a dangerous gamble. By exiling Archbishop Makarios to an Indian Ocean island without legal process, and ruthlessly stamping out terrorism, it hoped to create a "fertile vacuum" in which new, more compliant leaders would emerge. Karaolis had killed a cop, Demetriou had wounded a British businessman; they must...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CYPRUS: Deepening Tragedy | 5/21/1956 | See Source »

Athenian authorities ordered a marble plaque put up renaming the Athens street fronting the British embassy "Karaolis-Demetriou Street." A Cretan merchant offered a $300,000 reward for Sir John Harding's head, to match Harding's offer of $30,000 for information leading to the capture of Colonel George Grivas, the British-trained ex-Greek army officer reputed to head EOKA...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CYPRUS: Deepening Tragedy | 5/21/1956 | See Source »

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