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...plan on a long life. As a boy, he toyed with suicide, employing, among other means, a dull knife, hay-fever drops and a mild overdose of aspirin; he also survived several sessions of Russian roulette. Grown older, evidently in spite of himself, he left his native England as often as possible to court danger and disease, wherever and whenever they might prove most virulent: Africa, Mexico, Indochina, Cuba, Haiti, Central America. None of these places killed him; instead they furnished material for many of his more than 50 books, including novels, short story collections, travel writings, plays, essays, autobiography...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Life on the World's Edge: Graham Greene (1904-1991) | 4/15/1991 | See Source »

Results from laboratory analysis of a hunting knife and other trace evidence found at the scene were not yet available, Reilly said. The only description of the assailant remains a white male with dark hair and dark clothing, approximately six feet tall...

Author: By Ira E. Stoll, | Title: Police: No Progress In Frug Investigation | 4/12/1991 | See Source »

...opening scene a man pokes threateningly at a woman's crotch with a knife. In another scene a man straddles a sobbing woman, pinning her to the floor. "You should thank me!" he shouts over and over again as he kisses her violently. A later scene entails a fight between the Duchess and her brother in which the knife is again brought out. First he drags it suggestively in front of her throat. Then he gives it to her explaining that she should kill herself. An argument ensues during which the crying Duchess is held in a choke hold...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Offensive Duchess | 4/11/1991 | See Source »

...gained new support. Congressmen from New York and Maryland are trying to save the Navy's possibly obsolescent F-14 fighter, even though the Pentagon warns that will mean cutting production of more versatile F/A-18 fighter-bombers. The Apache, the Bradley, and the M1A1 Abrams may also escape the knife wielded by Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney. He wants to stop their production as part of a drive to slash defense spending by 1996 to 34% under that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: More Billions For Arms | 4/8/1991 | See Source »

...Army buddies and trash-haulage partners in this haunting Broadway production, one (Stephen Lang) now scruffy and homeless, the other (Len Cariou) now South Dakota's man of the year. Ironically, the dropout is at peace; the man who suppressed his dark secrets to fit in exists on the knife edge of anger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Mar. 25, 1991 | 3/25/1991 | See Source »

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