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...crisis of his career by forcing Defense Minister V.P. Singh, widely regarded as the ablest and most honest member of the Cabinet, to resign. Singh stepped down after he was bitterly attacked by Gandhi loyalists for authorizing probes into illegal financial dealings and military-contract kickbacks that promised to embarrass the Prime Minister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India: Hanging Out The Dirty Linen | 4/27/1987 | See Source »

...open to reveal eyes. Claire, filthy and feral, a dead rat in her mouth. Stuff like that. In such films as The Devils and Altered States, Russell found a conjurer's balance between sense and surrealism. But with this catalog of chic atrocities he cannot shock, he can only embarrass. For an artist as canny as Russell, that's crazy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Still Crazy After All These Fears | 4/20/1987 | See Source »

...other group members have different ideas about the band's purpose in Detroit. They know the true reason for their presence is to humiliate the other teams and embarrass the opposing bands. Taunting cheers are the lifeblood of the Harvard musical corps...

Author: By Adam J. Epstein, | Title: Banding Together in Detroit | 3/26/1987 | See Source »

...environment, like a college campus. Compared with other women, the victims generally suffer from lower self-esteem and are not very good at asserting themselves. One woman, raped by her date at a fraternity party, said she decided not to scream for help because she did not want to embarrass the rapist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: When The Date Turns into Rape | 3/23/1987 | See Source »

...resulted from the continuing power struggle between the ayatullah Hussein Ali Montazeri, the designated successor to the aging, ailing Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, and Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, speaker of the Iranian parliament. The journalists had been invited by Rafsanjani supporters, and Montazeri's men may have been trying to embarrass them by arresting the reporter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East Gunboat Diplomacy | 2/16/1987 | See Source »

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