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...champ is expected to be a role model: a monster at work, a gentleman at play. But Tyson also needed to live out the fight fan's fantasy -- and maybe his own -- that he is the world's roughest, meanest, baddest stud. His worst offense may be in believing that he is what he does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mike Tyson: Tragedy of An Ex-Champ | 8/26/1991 | See Source »

...neighborhood and the newborn's rescuers, meanwhile, have turned the infant into a symbol of life's sweet contingencies -- proof that happy endings can befall the meekest even in the meanest of places. Neighbors are calling him the "miracle baby." Those who found him are marveling at their luck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miracle In Brooklyn | 4/8/1991 | See Source »

...meanest man in Iraq? Those who think it is Saddam Hussein may want to change their opinion. Saddam's new Interior Minister, his paternal cousin Ali Hassan Majid, is as pitiless as they come -- "a total brute," as a British diplomat describes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Is Meanest Of Them All? | 3/25/1991 | See Source »

Nora finally knows she has found a home in this unlikely suburb when Billy, who has been terrorized by the meanest third-grade bullies in modern literature, makes the Little League baseball team. It would be the tritest of endings if it did not, like every word in this stirring, stunning novel, ring absolutely true...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Life On Hemlock Street | 8/6/1990 | See Source »

...Elvira Sali) and earn enough money to marry his girlfriend Azra (Sinolicka Trpkova). He must do it quickly, before Merdzan can get his lecherous hands on her. "Make sure her feet don't see more sky than earth," Perhan warns Grandma when he hires himself out to the richest, meanest man in town. Ahmed (Bora Todorovic) is a blustery gangster who will teach Perhan the rules of petty crime but will take a long time to learn how fierce are the strains of loyalty and revenge in his brightest pupil. Ahmed will finally get the point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A People Cursed with Magic | 2/19/1990 | See Source »

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