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Natural Born Killers A real-life Taiwan drama has all the elements of a low budget action flick: hostages seized, a live TV interview with a fugitive killer, a plastic-surgery face change, a shootout in a massage parlor and more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Front Page | 11/19/1997 | See Source »

Anna Klein, owner of the Newbury Herrell's, which dubs itself an "ice cream parlor and cafe," revealed in an interview with The Crimson that Steve Herrell franchises his namesake product...

Author: By Jacqueline A. Newmyer, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Toto, We're Not in The Square Anymore | 10/8/1997 | See Source »

...barely known, except perhaps as the husband of the nice lady who runs the Judaica shop over on Lincoln Road. In Los Angeles, where he made a considerable fortune, Moskowitz is renowned--in the tiny, working-class town of Hawaiian Gardens, that is--for taking over its bingo parlor and turning it into a multimillion-dollar money machine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: THE POWER OF MONEY | 9/29/1997 | See Source »

...last week Moskowitz was boldly demonstrating what a mess a fistful of dollars, strategically spent, can make of Arab-Israeli relations. It was his foundation's bingo-parlor proceeds that financed the Jewish zealots who set up house in an Arab neighborhood of East Jerusalem, nearly provoking violent confrontation with the Palestinians and casting more blight over the peace process. It was not the first time his philanthropy had set off seismic reverberations. His money helped prompt the opening of a new exit to an archaeological tunnel in East Jerusalem a year ago that sparked a bloody three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: THE POWER OF MONEY | 9/29/1997 | See Source »

...Clyde's invitation, an uncertain Gussie, now 84, visits Spur and shortly agrees to become his temporary "live-in." In Clyde's parlor the two sit in chock-a-block lounging chairs, holding hands, assuring each other without much conviction that they are too old to remarry. Clyde regales Gussie with Texas tall talk ("One day the wind stopped blowing, and all the chickens fell over") and old-timey family stories. He introduces Gussie to the folks at the Dairy Queen. They kiss, they hug. In New York, Aaron frets that his vulnerable father will wither when Gussie leaves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: FATHER'S DAY | 6/16/1997 | See Source »

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