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...chief evidence against Shabazz, who has pleaded not guilty, is a statement she signed for FBI agents and a stack of 20 audiotapes of conversations between her and Fitzpatrick. There is also a 50- min. videotape that Fitzpatrick made at a Minneapolis-area motel room where he had set up a hidden camera. But the Minneapolis Star Tribune, quoting an unnamed federal official close to the case, says that on the videotape Fitzpatrick does most of the talking, encouraging Shabazz to go ahead with the plot while she objects that innocent people might be killed or that Farrakhan supporters might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOLLOW THE LEADER | 1/30/1995 | See Source »

...SEEDY MOTEL ROOM. DIRTY clothes piled at the foot of the bed. Two men are engaged in a long discussion of a crime they committed years before, involving the blackmail of a horse-racing official. Carter (Ed Harris) is well dressed, assertive, nervous. Vinnie (Fred Ward) is grungy, passive, primitive. We're in Sam Shepard country, all right, a place of blasted American dreams and macho power games. There was a time (Curse of the Starving Class, True West, Fool for Love) when that country was an essential stop on any tour of the American theater. No longer. Simpatico, Shepard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: Arid Country | 11/28/1994 | See Source »

Within an hour, a blue sedan pulled up to the curb. The driver, a heavyset man, maybe 60, motioned her inside. At a nearby motel, Christine was too nervous to discuss money; he just dropped a couple of bills on the bedside stand. "He said something like, 'That should do it,' " she remembers. Then he took off his pants. "I couldn't do it. I wanted to run. I just started crying," she says. "It was like the man was really, really embarrassed. He was older than my father even, and I couldn't stand it. He asked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Running Scared | 11/21/1994 | See Source »

Sheriff Howard Wells, unfazed by his sudden fame, directed his team along parallel tracks. With the help of a new FBI computer system, authorities pursued every lead that came in, from psychics and crackpots, from well- meaning citizens as far away as the West Coast. A motel desk clerk in Seattle told police that a man had driven up in a car with South Carolina plates and dropped off a little boy. Police hoped it might be Alex. But it turned out to be someone else's child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death and Deceit | 11/14/1994 | See Source »

...Mallory visit an Indian shaman (Russell Means), the words demon and too much tv are superimposed on their torsos. Flashes of Hitler and Stalin, insects and rhinos, The Wild Bunch and Midnight Express (the film whose screenplay won Stone his first Oscar) explode on the window of a motel room while the two ( make love and a hostage looks on. As the Cowboy Junkies' ethereal version of Sweet Jane plays on the sound track, they make a blood pact, and the drops form cartoon snakes -- a big motif here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Stone Crazy | 8/29/1994 | See Source »

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