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Mona, however, is another story. As a larger than life she-devil, Olin plays her with wonderfully demonic wickedness. She brandishes a deranged laugh as well as she does a pistol. Unfortunately, Medak gives us no insight (aside form an out-of-left-field tale of her losing her virginity) into why she is indeed so bad. She is instead figure with pseudo-super powers and an inexplicable penchant for evil. That Olin must parade around in stiletto heels and garters only erodes her character's credibility even further...

Author: By Ariel Foxman, | Title: Bleeding Heartless | 2/10/1994 | See Source »

Clinton was motivated to address the problem of handgun violence in part because of a gruesome incident on New Yorks Long Island Rail Road in which an evidently deranged man wielding a 9-mm pistol killed five commuters and wounded 18 others. The assailant, Colin Ferguson of Brooklyn, is black; he carried notes that told of his hatred of whites, Asians and "Uncle Tom" Negroes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Week December 5-11 | 12/20/1993 | See Source »

ATHENS: After noticing a Volkswagen van parked on Mythimnis Street for three days, a resident called police. Two men arrested at the scene turned out to be U.S. diplomats, and the contents of the van included a wig, a 9-mm Browning pistol and radio transmitters. The snoopers were arrested, questioned and, thanks to their diplomatic immunity, whisked out of the country 24 hours later. Greek journalists speculated that the diplomats were investigating activities of the Nov. 17 terrorist organization, which claims to have killed 10 victims of various nationalities, including diplomats and a U.S. serviceman, since 1975. Local architect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Talk of the Streets | 11/29/1993 | See Source »

...Roughshod" and "musclebound." That's how President Clinton last week described organized labor's lobbying tactics against lawmakers who support the free-trade agreement. Those ugly terms, which evoke old stereotypes of spaghetti-sucking Mob bosses and pistol-blazing hitmen, infuriated Ronald Carey, the leader of the 1.4 million-member International Brotherhood of Teamsters. He demanded that Clinton apologize for using "code words" that are "an insult to every working man and woman in America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Reformer and the Mob | 11/22/1993 | See Source »

Lines to live by from gangsta rapper Tupac Amaru Shakur, 22, who not long ago gave an interview on MTV with what looked to be a pistol tucked into his waist. Last week Shakur was arrested in Atlanta and charged in the shooting of two off-duty police officers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shootin' Up the Charts | 11/15/1993 | See Source »

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