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...fact, there was more public fuss over an entirely separate issue: NBC's broadcast two weeks ago of Drug Wars: The Camarena Story, a docudrama about the 1985 murder of American drug-enforcement agent Enrique ("Kiki") Camarena. The mini-series, based on the book Desperados by TIME Washington correspondent Elaine Shannon, suggested that the killing was sanctioned at the highest levels of the Mexican government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Postinvasion Blues | 1/29/1990 | See Source »

...York Knicks are slightly better, even without any off-season additions. And that's because of Kiki "Where Pass is Just Another Four-Letter Word" Vandeweghe, who will be starting his first full season with the Knicks, and the continued maturation of Patrick Ewing and Mark Jackson...

Author: By Michael Stankiewicz, | Title: The 'Little Red Riding Hood' Odyssey Begins | 11/7/1989 | See Source »

...Robert Benchley in mid-quandary. But most of his entries could not be written by any other satirist at any other period: "The most delightful introduction you can make is to introduce an important person to someone he or she is going to find sexually interesting . . . you march Kiki over to your well-known friend. 'Antonio, you're going to love this girl. She once made Warren Beatty bleed out the ears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sacred Cows As Hamburger | 6/12/1989 | See Source »

...taking Duchamp a small step further, remain the most eloquent comments on the standardization of mass taste in American art. On desire, Warhol could be dreadfully accurate. His idea of silk-screening Marilyn Monroe's disembodied smile 168 times over derived, no doubt, from Man Ray's painting of Kiki de Montparnasse's lips floating in the Paris sky, but the feeling is quite different. It is about the administration of fantasy by media, not the enjoyment of fantasy by lovers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Best And Worst Of Warhol | 2/13/1989 | See Source »

...become a familiar pattern of complicity between drug operators and those charged with stamping out their trade, were three former Mexican police officials. "In what we do for a living we depend on the integrity of our law enforcement counterparts," said DEA Chief John Lawn. "In the case of Kiki Camarena, that mutual trust failed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Latin America Flames of Anger | 1/18/1988 | See Source »

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