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...film ends with shots of Hampton's bloody mattress and other physical evidence that Black Panther attorneys used to accuse the Chicago Police of first-degree murder...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Panthers' History Discussed | 10/11/1996 | See Source »

Johnson is also driving the company well beyond the U.S. In Japan trillions of yen have been figuratively kept under the mattress, locked into low-interest savings accounts. That money is becoming unlocked--and Fidelity wants a piece. In December, Fidelity became the first U.S. company to launch a yen-dominated investment trust in Japan. In Britain defined-contribution plans similar to 401(k)s, as well as mutual funds, are just beginning to take off, and the company is investing heavily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NED JOHNSON AND FIDELITY: THE MONEY MACHINE | 9/30/1996 | See Source »

...Jefferson. I originated in a place called Hope, but which might as well have been called Lust or All-Consuming Ambition, and I came roaring forth filled with a soaring zest to converse, to consume, to bunk down with my fellow countrymen and especially countrywomen on the warm, level mattress of Democracy. But somewhere along the way, I discerned a cold, repellent glint in America's eye. Maybe it was my stepfather's rages, or the way my wife's face hardened when the subject turned to cattle futures or real estate or banking. So I learned quick enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JANE AUSTEN, ANSWER YOUR BEEPER | 9/2/1996 | See Source »

...were passable. (Only 1 in 3 plows worked.) Now that it's spring, there are so many deep, unrepaired potholes that some neighbors have banded together to patch their own; others have resorted to throwing 25-lb. bags of mulch into them and, in the neighborhood of Kalorama, a mattress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISTRICT OF CALAMITY | 4/29/1996 | See Source »

...dancing mattresses, played by assorted Boston Ballet Artists, are the funniest part of the evening as they awkwardly shuffle around in their sleeping caps. One can only imagine how difficult it is to dance wearing a mattress but the sleepy bunch pull it off, milking every last comic moment of their costuming...

Author: By Marc R. Talusan, | Title: Happily Ever After: Dances & Fairytales | 10/26/1995 | See Source »

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