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...minute tape recordings of the torturing of the Estimes were seized from Desyr's home last February. The tapes, filled with screams, have been broadcast on Haitian radio stations. At one point on the tape, Desyr orders a man torturing one of the cousins to "break his finger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Haiti View Inside a Killing Machine | 7/28/1986 | See Source »

...gown with cloverleaf appliques designed by Carolina Herrera, arrived in a white limousine with her uncle, Senator Ted Kennedy, who helped her with her train and patted her back encouragingly before they entered the church. When the more than 2,000 onlookers grew noisy, Caroline hushed them with a finger to her lips. Thirty minutes later, she and her new husband emerged from the church, and Best Man John F. Kennedy Jr. blew his sister a kiss. Jackie, wearing a fitted, pale lime green sheath, bit her lip and struggled to hold back tears as she walked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 28, 1986 | 7/28/1986 | See Source »

Another place after the yuppie look is One Potato, Two Potato (1280 Mass Ave.), which recently reopened after a more than year-long absence. Drinks are moderately expensive here but there is good finger food. The atmosphere leaves something to be desired. Long time patrons of this bar point out that this one time cozy and homey place now looks like a gym for square dancing...

Author: By Jonathan M. Moses, | Title: Drink 'Til You Drop | 6/22/1986 | See Source »

...local Lucky Store in San Mateo, Calif. Even before Lucky's computerized check-out system has finished scanning the bar codes on his coffee, beer and bread, Miller has run his bank card through the system's magnetic strip reader, punched in his personal identification number and poised his finger above a button marked AMOUNT...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Networking the Nation | 6/16/1986 | See Source »

...pastrami that way in a New York delicatessen can expect to earn the sort of insult the late Zero Mostel is said to have hurled when he heard such a concoction being ordered. As the legend goes, the great comic stood up in the jam-packed room, pointed a finger at the offender and screamed, "Get out of this restaurant!" Which shows how seriously Americans take their almost-taken-for-granted favorite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: Sandwiches: Eating From Hand to Mouth | 6/16/1986 | See Source »

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