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...imagery last week as the leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization (TIME cover, Nov. 11) concluded an extraordinary 80-minute speech to the United Nations General Assembly. Arafat, dressed in a fawn windbreaker and brown trousers and wearing both his familiar black-and-white checkered kaffiyeh and a pistol holster, which aides insisted was empty, finished his perorations, walked away from the mottled-marble rostrum and clasped his hands over his head in a boxer's victory stance. Led by delegates from Arab nations, the crowded Assembly Hall-the seats were predictably empty at the table reserved for Israel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Guns and Olive Branches | 11/25/1974 | See Source »

...still a great American presence, an icon to be reckoned with. The blond, blue-eyed Hill blends the spirit of a devilish boy with an adult's competence in the hard moments of a hard trade. You half expect him to pull a toad out of his holster, and you never quite believe that he can draw thrice in the time it takes ordinary men to draw once. And you shouldn't. For this is not the legendary West, but the tall-tale West, where realistic detail is introduced merely to lend credence to one of the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Western Whopper | 8/26/1974 | See Source »

Gunsmoke. Matt Dillon, who has been whipping it out of his holster for 19 years, finally whips it out of his pants: Tonight is his first love affair since the show started in 1955. Ch. 7, 5 p.m. 1 hour...

Author: By F. Briney, | Title: TELEVISION | 4/18/1974 | See Source »

...years ago, as the new media hype began to rob the public of their critical bearings. For Kael, this means that where a movie's mistakes were venial sins in the past, today they are more likely to be mortal. So she keeps hands on holster ready to warn the public of any foul play...

Author: By Emily Fisher, | Title: Kael-aesthetics | 4/16/1973 | See Source »

Neither man takes chances. Boston never leaves home without his gun, "even to go to church"; Messaros says he straps his holster on before he brushes his teeth. "Fear is something in your mind that has to be overcome," Messaros says. Boston is equally stoic: "Hell, I could die tomorrow at the movies." Still, both feel that their equipment-pistol, blackjack, nightstick, helmet-could be improved upon by putting a sawed-off shotgun in their car. No need to point it at anyone, they say-"just that you come out of the car, and it comes with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Two Policemen on the Beat | 9/14/1970 | See Source »

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