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Fairy-tale princesses, however, are not bludgeoned to death by their mothers. They are not violated with a toothbrush and a hairbrush, and the neighbors do not hear them moaning and pleading at night. Last week, two months before her seventh birthday, Elisa Izquierdo lay in her casket, wearing a crown of flowers. The casket was open, which was an anguished protest on someone's part; no exertion of the undertaker's art could conceal all Elisa's wounds. Before she smashed her daughter's head against a cement wall, Awilda Lopez told police, she had made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ELISA IZQUIERDO: ABANDONED TO HER FATE | 12/11/1995 | See Source »

...will have it. You can get any variety of Japanese newspaper, magazine or manga (Japanese comics). The comperhensive array of food, Japanese-style cups and bowls and goods gave me the feeling that Kotobukiya served a large and loyal following. If you can only get your favorite toothbrush and hairbrush in Japan and nothing in CVS will do, Kotobukiya will have it. After your meal at the sushi bar, you may wish to emulate a sushi chef. Kotobukiya will provide you with pre-cut fish, and you can use your newfound knowledge and expertise to make Japanese delicacies of your...

Author: By Elizabeth M. Angell, | Title: Kotobukiyay! | 4/27/1995 | See Source »

...with a trademark belch. He is now out of beer as well as cigarettes and money, and there is nothing to distract him but the cold sea breeze. He searches each pocket twice, the first time slowly and then frantically: only a pocket knife, his lighter and a hairbrush. Then he sits, arms wrapped around his knees, head turned away, his small frame shaking slightly. "This is bull ," he says in a whisper. He says it again, then again, each time softer until he is inaudible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Running Scared | 11/21/1994 | See Source »

...casting department at Columbia Pictures. Guber quickly became chief of production and, by the time he left in 1976, his credits included The Way We Were and Shampoo. Peters, 44, an Angeleno who spent a year in reform school, broke into the movie industry using a hairbrush and a blow dryer. After coiffing Barbra Streisand and then moving in with her, the hairstyling tycoon produced her 1976 hit movie, A Star Is Born. Eventually the talkative Peters produced two other Streisand vehicles, The Main Event and What's Up, Doc?, as well as the hit comedy Caddyshack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dynamic | 11/6/1989 | See Source »

...body have been recognizable for years, and now her name is known to the kids who rush to get autographs and the distraught high school boys who write earnest letters ("You are by far the most beautiful looking and shaped woman ...") begging for an old sock, a hairbrush, a nude picture. Soon it will be known to the steady and the reasonable, the people who keep their credit cards paid up and have their children's teeth straightened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The All-American Model | 3/6/1978 | See Source »

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