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Tigers on the Prowl...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Racquetmen, Tigers Tangle | 2/7/1987 | See Source »

...Institute for Policy Studies, "whites get the message that the leader of this country, the moral beacon, is saying it's all right to be racist." That judgment was considerably exaggerated, but it nonetheless remains true that any sign of indifference means that the beast is free to prowl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Racism On The Rise | 2/2/1987 | See Source »

...Parade, it is the hottest item of the season. Getting right down to bang-bang-you're-dead business, younger ones like to charge with StarLytes blazing, making the StarSensor glow and sound every time a hit is scored. Bigger kids (including daddies) prefer to lurk and prowl, hide and take careful aim. Either way, Lazer Tag is a more elegant way of working out aggression than the Rambo toys, and it sure is sleeker than G.I. Joe. It is the kind of game that could turn into a phenomenon. Keep your head down, and, oh, yes, more of those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: O.K., Santa, Make My Day | 12/22/1986 | See Source »

...macabre is a reminder of the toll exacted by the ongoing civil war. By now some 20,000 civilians have lost limbs to rebel mines planted among crops, under footpaths and along dusty village roads. Thousands more have been killed by the rebels or by government troops on the prowl for guerrilla collaborators. Economically, the nation has also been left maimed. President Dos Santos concedes that the war has already cost his government more than $12 billion; 1 million of the country's 8.5 million people are on the brink of starvation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Angola Dancing to a Tin Drummer | 9/29/1986 | See Source »

...without the palm trees. The streets are grizzled; the council flats could have been designed by the architect for Attica; the Charleston Club, a night spot where most of the film's action unspools, is a little triumph of dejected bad taste. Young predators attack a blind pensioner or prowl parking lots in search of black mischief. And the police are apt to break into the wrong home and leave the place a shambles. Seems it happens all the time. "We'll get a carpenter straight out, sir," says one apologetic bobby. "We have them on standby. For incidents such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Liverpool After the Beatles | 9/8/1986 | See Source »

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