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...Game, the mayhem on the field was nothing compared to what was going...

Author: By Amita M. Shukla, | Title: The H-Y Game: 120 Years Of Change | 11/18/1995 | See Source »

...time he suspects that one of the villains is his friend John Hay, later to be a U.S. Secretary of State. A gendarme confronts him at an awkward moment: "Oh, dear, Monsieur Adams. This doesn't look good ... Alone with a dead body. Again. Your appetite for mayhem appears insatiable ... It will go more easily with you if you just tell the truth." The suspense here is not unbearable since we know that the real Adams was not guillotined. But in teasing Adams' respectable shade just a bit, the author has provided some of the year's most cheerful literary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: HENRY ADAMS, RE-EDUCATED | 10/9/1995 | See Source »

...disgusting cyberporn, and those purveyors--and collectors--punished to the full extent of laws (to be quickly written). It is, after all, horrible for innocent children to see unnatural images of naked human bodies. How better for them to watch tens of thousands of natural images of murder and mayhem on television and in the movies. RANDY WILSON Santa Monica, California Via America Online

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 31, 1995 | 7/31/1995 | See Source »

...Bridgeport, functions as a temporary jail cell for men who haven't made bond. The dozen men held inside, their hands shackled behind them, were arrested over the weekend and are awaiting arraignment; new detainees are herded in and out all day. In the midst of this noise and mayhem, some of the accused meet their lawyers for the last time before approaching the bench and confer hastily through the metal mesh about their pleas. Though the state affiliate of the A.C.L.U. has brought a class action against Connecticut's indigent-defense system, citing the Cage as one of many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RICH JUSTICE, POOR JUSTICE | 6/19/1995 | See Source »

Those producing this garbage tell us we're naive. Natural Born Killers isn't an attempt to profit from murder and mayhem, says Oliver Stone. It's a send-up of the way the tabloid press exploits violence-a claim that would be a lot more convincing if Stone would contribute to charity the multimillion dollar profits the movie earned last year. Time Warner CEO Gerald Levin, whose company produced Natural Born Killers and has put out much of the most offensive music, says that rappers like Ice-T are misunderstood: when Ice-T chants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TOUGH TALK ON ENTERTAINMENT | 6/12/1995 | See Source »

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