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...Marks & Spencer department store chain, Joseph Edward Sieff, in the bathroom, Carlos aimed his gun at his prey's face and fired one shot. Sieff was spared when the bullet ricocheted off his teeth. Later, Carlos would say his gun had jammed. "I usually fire three times around the nose. But only one bullet went off." He also botched his second mission, aiming poorly as he tossed hand grenades into an Israeli bank. "This is not a very efficient terrorist," says Vincent Cannistraro, former head of the CIA's counterterrorism program. "He was never as good as his reputation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Carlos Caged | 8/29/1994 | See Source »

...Jane's tacky jewelry to the plush red shag carpet. Her actors are not merely "m e t h o d" they are just plain bad. But it doesn't matter, you're too busy scoffing, guffawing and trying to make sure the snot doesn't fly out your nose from laughing. Without the crazy plot this film would remain a time-period classic for its decor and dress. Chesty is always equipped with her frilly tops to make her chest look even bigger and her bellbottom polyester suits which create a little dust cloud everywhere she goes...

Author: By G. WILLIAM Winborn, | Title: Harvard Welcomes the Uncrowned | 8/12/1994 | See Source »

...steady escalation of military and political pressures designed to send Haitian Army Chief Raoul Cedras and his cronies this message: We don't want to invade Haiti, but if that's the only way to get rid of you, we will. From Cedras and company comes a series of nose-thumbing moves adding up to this reply: Come on -- we dare you. But the game has not reached the point at which the final collision becomes inevitable; there is still time for either side -- or both -- to swerve away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Haiti: Threat and Defiance | 7/25/1994 | See Source »

...Shchelkovo District Administrative Office, located on a central square dominated by a huge statue of Lenin. With a pack of a dozen journalists at his heels, he paraded into the office of Nikolai Pashin, the head of the local administration. Wiping his face with his hands, tweaking his nose and interrupting his host several times to give orders to his aides, he listened as Pashin trotted out a list of ills afflicting the community. No problem was so large that Zhirinovsky wasn't ready with an instant solution. The district's atrocious road? "I'll see Prime Minister Chernomyrdin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Vladimir Zhirinovsky: Rising Czar? | 7/11/1994 | See Source »

...like to be a lesbian these days. While I cannot speak from personal experience about what it is like to be a lesbian in the '90s, the film confronts, draws out and discusses very openly such sterotypes of lesbians as butch or short-haired, combat-boot-wearing nose-ring-touting macho sluts...

Author: By G. WILLIAM Winborn, | Title: THE GIRL IS OUT THERE | 7/8/1994 | See Source »

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