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...toothed bikers and punks. The economic boom of the '80s, in which Japan's assets grew 80% in just four years, produced, Greenfeld suggests, a new generation of cheap operators and rich hedonists. As young, hip and plugged-in as his subjects -- he knows every Gaultier accessory and Ruger pistol -- Greenfeld provides a racy, knowing portrait of the people who are usually cropped out of the country's official portrait of itself...
...Joseph Wesbecker -- an out-of-work pressman -- walked into the printing plant of his former employer, the Standard Gravure company of Louisville, Kentucky, and began blasting away with an AK-47. When the shooting was over, 12 people were wounded and nine dead -- including Wesbecker, from a self-inflicted pistol shot...
...eight bullet wounds in the head," said a forensic expert at the University of Lausanne's Institute for Legal Medicine, which handled the autopsies. "That hardly suggests suicide." Police found 52 spent shells scattered at the Cheiry death site and later discovered at Granges-sur-Salvan the 22-cal. pistol from which they had been fired. Canadian police said three of the five Quebec victims, who died about five days before the Swiss killings, were repeatedly stabbed; their suspected killers were believed to be among the suicides at Granges-sur-Salvan...
Tarantino's movies are smartly intoxicating cocktails of rampage and meditation; they're in-your-face, with a mac-10 machine pistol and a quote from the Old Testament. They blend U.S. and European styles of filmmaking; they bring novelistic devices to the movie mall. And in Pulp Fiction, a multipart tribute to the hard-boiled books and films of American mid-century, he has devised a sprawling, sturdy canvas that accommodates the high-octane and the highbrow...
...junta's recalcitrant militiamen. The move came hours after pro-junta Haitians in the southwestern town of Les Cayes shot and wounded a U.S. Special Forces soldier. After the raid -- in which about 100 U.S. Army personnel detained at least 10 armed Haitians, including a woman who packed a pistol in her bra -- a crowd of club-wielding pro-democracy demonstrators surged into the compound, trashing and smashing anything within reach. The U.S. soldiers let the frenzy continue for an hour before dispersing the crowd. The American commander in Haiti, Lt. Gen. Hugh Shelton, said the detainees would be released...