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During the next 48 hours, fearsome anarchy spread along the streets and freeways of a city designed around the car and free mobility. Gangs attacked luckless drivers, beating and robbing and leaving them sprawled on the roadways. Hovering news helicopters captured several of these assaults; footage rivaling the King video in its wanton brutality was broadcast worldwide. L.A.'s 7,800-member police force, working on alternating 12-hour shifts, was overwhelmed by the scope of the violence. Wholesale looting went largely unchecked; many of the more than 3,700 fires started during the rioting raged out of control, since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Jarring Verdict, An Angry Spasm | 5/11/1992 | See Source »

SCTV alum Dave Thomas times two: as a luckless actor who plays a serial killer on a TV true-crime show, and as the real serial killer who gets revenge for the indignity. This cable special could have settled for simply lampooning America's Most Wanted, which it does to perfection. But it grew swiftly into a hilarious satire of America's celebrity obsession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best of 1991 | 1/6/1992 | See Source »

SCTV alum Dave Thomas times two: as a luckless actor who plays a serial killer on a TV true-crime show, and as the real serial killer who gets revenge for the indignity. This cable special could have settled for simply lampooning America's Most Wanted, which it does to perfection. But it grew swiftly into a hilarious satire of America's celebrity obsession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best of 1991:Television | 1/6/1992 | See Source »

...asked for a delay, so it was 2:05 before they seated themselves, all unknowing, in Hull's antechamber. Hull, who had already read their message and knew about the raid on Pearl Harbor as well, made a pretense of reading the document, then lashed out at the luckless envoys. "In all my 50 years of public service," he declared, "I have never seen a document that was more crowded with infamous falsehoods and distortions." When Nomura tried to answer, Hull raised a hand to cut him off, then showed him to the door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Day of Infamy | 12/2/1991 | See Source »

...JACKET TO DIE FOR. Descended from the "greaser" coats of the 1950s, these $800 leather items are only for the rich -- and the brave. Several luckless owners have lost their lives along with their coats in robberies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cutting-Edge Fashion | 5/13/1991 | See Source »

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