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...city of Mosul fired two surface-to-air missiles at a pair of U.S. jets patrolling the U.N.-imposed "no-fly zone" over northern Iraq. Though the attackers missed their targets, the U.S. response was swift and unusually aggressive. After fighter-bombers dropped cluster bombs on the antiaircraft site, laser-guided bombs were directed at it by another pair of U.S. planes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Digest August 15-21 | 8/30/1993 | See Source »

...lives to make movies," says film critic David Chute, who produced the new laser-disc set of The Killer and observed Woo close up as unit publicist on Hard Target. "He's without ulterior motives, so the set was remarkably free of backbiting, infighting or ego fits." Woo was unfazed by Hard Target's $18.5 million price tag, about five times the size of his Hong Kong budgets. Still, there were adjustments. "In Hong Kong," notes Van Damme, "he's the Steven Spielberg of action movies, but in Los Angeles he's just the new guy in town." Raimi says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: John Woo: The Last Action Hero | 8/23/1993 | See Source »

...paid $1 million or so a year to take on fights. He doesn't cut much of a figure -- beefy and rumpled. But as the courtroom action begins, he's Clark Kent emerging from the telephone booth in his cape -- energetic, dominating, intuitive, shooting out questions like laser beams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Superlawyer! | 8/9/1993 | See Source »

...valley in eastern Bosnia, American Special Forces troops with blackened faces silently slip out of a tree line to point laser beams at Serbian artillery pieces, ammunition stores and fuel dumps. The F/A-18 Hornet and A-6 Intruder aircraft from the carriers roar in, lock on to the laser spots and send their bombs streaking toward the targets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reluctant Warrior | 5/17/1993 | See Source »

...Vegas will envelop gambling inside a 160-acre resort that will include a golf course, intimate villages, a replica of Rick's Cafe Americain (the gambling joint from the movie Casablanca,) and a 14-acre lake where visitors can water- ski during the day and watch a laser show at night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Casino Salesman | 5/3/1993 | See Source »

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