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Members of his family say Michael Huston, 41, had been mentally disabled since the Vietnam War, which may explain why he blames "another person inside" him for setting a 1990 blaze that caused $25 million in damage to movie sets and property at Hollywood's Universal Studios. In January, Huston admitted in a Los Angeles courtroom that he had tossed a cigarette lighter into a trash can full of papers at Universal, then reported the fire to a superior, apparently hoping to earn praise. Wearing the ubiquitous uniform of Burns International Security Services, the nation's largest, Huston had been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Report: Thugs in Uniform | 3/9/1992 | See Source »

...companies that rely on the $15 billion security industry, "problems" like Padilla, Huston and Juse are all too common. While the majority of the estimated 1.1 million security guards in America do honest and capable work, a TIME investigation indicates that the industry, which has grown spectacularly in the past two decades, has become a virtual dumping ground for the unstable, the dishonest and the violent. Many use drugs or have criminal records. Many are hired off the street, given uniforms and assigned to posts within a day. The industry is fragmented, intensely competitive and unwilling to police itself adequately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Report: Thugs in Uniform | 3/9/1992 | See Source »

Land and Freedom: Social Relations, Political Conflict, and the Debate Over Property Rights Among New York's Anti-Renters, 1844-1846--by Reeve Huston, graduate student, History Dept., Yale University. Sever Hall, room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: At Harvard | 2/20/1992 | See Source »

Economic Keynesianism, at worst, leaves you with some nice government-built bridges. Symbolic Military Keynesianism leaves you with a vague sense of disappointment and massive hangover of drugs, crime, unemployment, a third-rate video duplicate of Whitney Huston "celebrating America's proudest moment" on HBO and a total absence of concern for the wreckage the military left behind...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Symbolic Pump-Priming | 1/17/1992 | See Source »

...ADDAMS FAMILY. This elegant spin-off from the Charles Addams drawings and the '60s TV series is worth seeing for the casting alone: Anjelica Huston as Morticia, Raul Julia as Gomez, Christina Ricci as the elfin ghoul Wednesday. A one-joke movie -- every gag is about the aristocracy of decay -- but handsomely told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Dec. 9, 1991 | 12/9/1991 | See Source »

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