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...poverty, sickness and prejudice, uncertainty and despair--this daughter of an earl, this mother of a putative King of England was paradoxically familiar with them all: and when the end came, it was a properly symbolic end as, with her playboy lover, she was driven at midnight by a drunken driver much too fast in a Mercedes through a city underpass, pursued by photographers on motorbikes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NAUGHTY GIRL NEXT DOOR | 9/15/1997 | See Source »

...Percentage of drunken drivers involved in fatal car crashes in 1995 who were speeding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Sep. 15, 1997 | 9/15/1997 | See Source »

...attorney for the Al Fayed family ? owners of the Ritz hotel that employed the allegedly drunken, speeding limo driver Henri Paul ? is threatening to sue photographers for damages. The lawyer, Bernard Dartevelle, launched the latest volley in his media offensive by stressing that a witness reported seeing a motorcycle zigzagging in front of the Mercedes in an apparent bid to try to slow it down, just before the crash. One of the attorneys representing paparazzi under investigation for manslaughter counters that the photographers are being targeted as "sacrificial lambs" in a prime-time case of "showbiz justice" aimed at pleasing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diana Case: Playing the Blame Game | 9/3/1997 | See Source »

...place to live, some may even despise it and call it a "freak-zone," but the events will go on. People will still cavort around in drag; they will continue to whip their neighbors on Halloween; they will ballroom dance to the Bach Society Orchestra's drunken waltz music; they will eat chocolate penises...

Author: By Marshall I. Lewy, | Title: The Paradox of Tradition | 5/19/1997 | See Source »

...make the audience feel guilty for sympathizing with an assassin. Juliene James '00 appears onstage with him as The Balladeer, a narrator of sorts who comments on and interacts with the characters, falling somewhere in between Jiminy Cricket and a Greek chorus. She cuts into Booth's sad, drunken ramblings both to point out Booth's ultimate place in the history of assassins and to chastise him for it. "Johnny," as she calls him, paved the way for all future assassins, but, as she adds, "angry men don't write the rules and men with guns don't right...

Author: By Jamie L. Jones, | Title: Perfectly Killing 'Assassins' | 5/16/1997 | See Source »

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