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...themselves cut off from any possible solace and forgiveness. The novella Bear and His Daughter portrays the explosive meeting of two such lost souls: a drunken poet on a reading tour in the Mountain States and his illegitimate daughter, who is now 31 and a park ranger packing a pistol. Her boyfriend, fearing what may come of the father's visit, tells her, "I hope God helps you. You should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: NO MERCY | 4/7/1997 | See Source »

...inventiveness?with something other than cliches?" TELEVISION . . . GUN: The latest?and most impressively pedigreed?of this spring's slate of cop shows is ABC?s 'Gun,' which starts on April 12 (Saturdays, 10 p.m. ET). Conceived by director Robert Altman, Gun aims to follow the life of a single pistol?an intriguing premise until you realize that no single episode will have any relation to the last. But then arbitrariness is the show?s only distinguishing element. In the first episode, dwarfs appear as waiters at a swank hotel for no explicable reason. "In some ways, 'Gun' resembles a camp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Weekend Entertainment Guide | 4/4/1997 | See Source »

...Hell's Kitchen, who by tradition control labor in the tunnel, and Italian heavies hired by management to break the union. At first Billy tries to ride out the skirmishing. Then his elder brother Paddy, a former prizefighter who is an enforcer for the Irish mob, hands him a pistol and tells him to make himself scarce. "These guys are psychos. I just don't know how it's gonna play out," says Paddy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: TUNNEL VISION | 3/17/1997 | See Source »

...first wife of North Korean strongman Kim Jong Il, was reported to be brain-dead after two gunmen shot him in the head outside a friend's apartment Saturday. Police found two shells at the site from the weapon of choice for North Korean agents, a Belgian Browning pistol. While Seoul's response to Lee's death has been remarkably understated, possibilities for South Korea to get some political revenge might be just around the corner. Seoul newspapers report that Hwang has given the CIA a list of five to seven other high-ranking North Korean functionaries willing to defect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Korean Standoff Nears Resolution | 2/17/1997 | See Source »

...witness was the person that Ennis called from a cell phone at 1:15 a.m. for help illuminating the area with the headlights of her car, the better to fix his flat. According to those stories, the witness supposedly left the scene because she saw a man with a pistol, who tapped on her car window. She then returned and found Ennis dead on the pavement next to his Mercedes. She supposedly saw a car fleeing but could not identify the make. The police have announced that something was taken from the crime scene, but Williams would not be specific...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'HE WAS MY HERO' | 1/27/1997 | See Source »

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