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...another six months in jail, most of the Freemen have remained faithful to their professed belief in the Federal Government's illegitimacy. They have largely refused counsel, objecting--and belching loudly--at pretrial hearings. Two weeks ago, a federal judge authorized "such reasonable force as necessary" to take their finger and palm prints. Trials are expected to begin no earlier than March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SECOND ACTS | 12/30/1996 | See Source »

...Applebaum, in fact, who has put his finger on the case's underlying class issue. Perhaps unaware that the service economy constitutes 75% of the country's gross domestic product, many folks beyond big cities and high-income brackets consider it a bit excessive for the wealthy to hire people to do their shopping for them, let alone their pilfering. Thus, in addition to denying any wrongdoing, Applebaum ventured, "I would hope the fact they may be upper middle class is not something they will be punished for or made an example...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEY DIDN'T PAY RETAIL | 12/23/1996 | See Source »

...world of Faye Resnick," yet his own world seems a far more treacherous and sinister one. In the "O.J. world" ex-wives beat themselves up, rassling is a noncontact sport, phone companies keep phony records every cop is a conspirator, all photos are doctored, cuts on the finger cause amnesia, blood has a travel agent and night golf is popular. Yikes! I wonder if agents Dana Scully and Fox Mulder from The X-Files know about this place. JOE BOLSTER Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 23, 1996 | 12/23/1996 | See Source »

...manipulated by people hidden in the stage blackness. The animals produce a cub, which later turns into a human child--which still later changes from a puppet into a real live boy. Oversize masks hide most of the remaining actors, from the stern-faced schoolteacher with his crooked, elongated finger to a snarling, flamenco-dancing tiger tamer. Butterflies float across the stage, a miniature church breaks apart when leaves erupt from inside it, and a dancing skeleton in a bowler hat is a macabre emcee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: NO DANCING TEAPOTS | 12/16/1996 | See Source »

...drove off, he stretched his hand out of the car window, pointing his finger...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Not-So-Desultory Philippic | 12/14/1996 | See Source »

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