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...first game, held in New Hampshire last summer, appeared, strangers began calling up Gaines and his friends to ask where they could play. After some early problems with insurance ("You want liability coverage for what?), they began selling kits at $145 each, consisting of the Nel-Spot, a holster, a supply of CO2 and paint pellets, a set of rules and nofog protective goggles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New Hampshire: Splotched in the Woods | 7/19/1982 | See Source »

...symbolism behind the fraternal conflict. Lee represents the true West, the land of cowboys and Indians and rugged individualism--which, according to Austin, has been entirely replaced by freeways and high-rises and Hollywood operatives. Austin cannot understand Kimmer's enthusiasm about Lee' movie, because it is a real holster-grabbing, double-barreled Western "I m the one who's in touch, not him?" Austin yells at Kimmer But the movie producer doesn't agree: he thinks Lee's plot has honest-to-goodness grit. "We make movies. American movies. Leave films to the French," he snaps at Austin...

Author: By Deborah K. Holmes, | Title: True Shepard | 4/21/1982 | See Source »

Raymond Garthoff, a leading expert on Soviet military strategy who is now at the Brookings Institution, believes that the Soviets would consider trying to get the drop on the U.S. with nuclear weapons only if they were convinced that the U.S. was about to reach for its own holster: "If they really concluded that the U.S. had decided to attack them, they would preempt. This would be in a situation of crisis and high alert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living with Mega-Death | 3/29/1982 | See Source »

...arraignment of Richard Martin, 32. Suddenly, Martin tried to escape. Finding the exit blocked, he headed for Arthur. Martin punched the judge in the face, drawing blood and sending him sprawling. Last year in a Chicago courtroom, Defendant Wayne Ellis grabbed a revolver from a policeman's holster, aimed it at Judge William Prendergast and pulled the trigger three times. Fortunately, the gun was empty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Open Season on the Judiciary | 11/9/1981 | See Source »

...talking about brothels. She told them that she'd never seen one, but had always wanted to. The students agreed to take her, and they went to a house at the edge of the city. A large man in uniform entered with a pistol in his holster. He was the chief bodyguard of the dictator of Guatemala. Looking around the room he saw Jane and said, 'That's the one I want.' The students tried to protest. 'This is a tourist,' they said. The proprietor offered him one of the other women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fragments of a Gentle Despair | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

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