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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Pelikula can be offended at the mere mention of an actor they consider to be inferior. Mention of these actors is tantamount to violating a sacred taboo. When I mentioned Jim Carrey's name in one conversation, for example, the shaman of the tribe spit three times and walked away. It took many gifts of Alfred Hitchcock video-tapes and props from old Hepburn-Tracy movies to appease him. I was forced to flee the community for good when I inadvertently mentioned the films of Jerry Lewis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Out of Africa | 1/13/1995 | See Source »

...office withdrew some items from consideration in this evidenciary hearing, including passages from Nicole Simpsons' journal and a statement allegedly made by Simpson that if he caught any of his ex-wife's boyfriends driving his cars, he would "cut their (expletive) heads off." TIME Los Angeles correspondent Jim Willwerth, who is covering the trial, says, "A lot of extremely dramatic and very substantial incidents of violence and abuse are left. This move did not weaken the prosecution case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: O.J. . . . VIOLENT HISTORY? | 1/12/1995 | See Source »

Only thirty minutes of back-country road separate my home from Storrs, Connecticut and Gampel Pavilion home of the Huskies. The players occasionally shop at the local mall. Coach Jim Calhoun makes his summertime rounds on a nearby golf course. Husky mania has, quite literally, been very near and dear...

Author: By Shira A. Springer, | Title: New England Regains College Hoops Stardom | 1/11/1995 | See Source »

Officers Robert Kotowski, Jim McCarthy, Robert Sweetland and David Lee assisted in the arrest...

Author: By Marios V. Broustas, | Title: Six Arrested in Robbery of Grad Student | 1/11/1995 | See Source »

...well. He forced CIA analysts to write crisper intelligence reports for the White House. He oversaw plans for cutting almost 25% of the CIA's work force of more than 20,000 by the end of the decade, ahead of the schedule the Administration set for the reductions. "Jim Woolsey was a sincere and decent man who had an impossible task," says Angelo Codevilla, an intelligence expert with the Hoover Institution. "He was a much better director than the CIA was an agency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wrong Spy for the Job | 1/9/1995 | See Source »

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