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...friends martyred, and here all the young people wanted was to be like Madonna and Michael Jackson." By their way of dress, Iranians signal where they stand in the cultural divide. Devout revolutionaries wear dark colors. Men favor baggy trousers, long-sleeved shirts buttoned to the neck and several days' growth of beard; women wear layers of Islamic clothing known as hijab, including the magneh (a headdress) and the chador. On the other side, the garbzadeh -- literally, "those poisoned by the West" -- wear jeans and colored short-sleeved shirts if they are men; the women wear a raincoat-like "uniform...
...lanyard between his knees -- "this beautiful gold handle" he would call it at a press conference on Saturday -- and exploded through the disintegrating cockpit into the skies 26,000 ft. above the Bosnian forests. The ejection seat rocketed O'Grady into the air, its charge searing parts of his neck and face. After punching out of his plane, he opened his parachute manually instead of waiting for it to be released. It was afternoon and visibility from below was all too good. "I was in that parachute for an extremely long time," he said. "Everybody on the ground could...
Both could be correct, at least politically, and still miss the main point. Yes, the Indians are very nice people here, which is a nice thing. And yes, the real Pocahontas probably didn't have Tina Turner's posture and Iman's neck. She probably didn't sing Broadway-style songs either or talk to a clever raccoon and a persnickety hummingbird. Maybe John Smith didn't look like Fabio and sound like Mel Gibson (who speaks the role). But this is a movie-a cartoon, for goodness' sake! It is a boy-meets-girl, boy-gets-girl, boy-loses...
CONVALESCING. CHRISTOPHER REEVE, 42, screen and stage actor; from surgery to fuse the neck vertebrae he shattered in a fall from a horse; in Charlottesville, Virginia. The operation allowed Reeve to be elevated to a sitting position, but with the exception of some movement in his shoulders, he remains paralyzed and unable to breathe without a respirator...
HOSPITALIZED. CHRISTOPHER REEVE, 42, actor; for a broken neck and injured spinal cord; in Charlottesville, Virginia. Reeve, who leaped to stardom in the 1978 big-screen version of Superman, was competing in an equestrian event when his horse refused a jump and Reeve was thrown to the ground, breaking two vertebrae at the base of his skull. Reeve is on a respirator, paralyzed below the neck, but reporting sensation in his chest. Doctors will operate this week to prevent further damage to his spinal cord...