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...summer, I attended a speech by the rabid Black nationalist and Muslim leader, Louis Farrakhan. After a very personal frisking, I found that I was one of three white spectators in a crowd of 3000. I had expected to be outraged by some of Farrakhan's usual anti-Semitic rhetoric, but there was none that...

Author: By Laurie M. Grossman, | Title: Not Yet Gone With the Wind | 10/7/1987 | See Source »

...place to await trial. But the situation of the 26 English soccer fans now housed there is anything but comfortable. After being extradited from Britain, they face manslaughter charges arising from riots during the 1985 European Cup championships in Brussels' Heysel Stadium. Thirty-nine spectators died as they fled rabid English fans. Most of the victims were crushed to death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Belgium: Awaiting Trial In Style | 9/21/1987 | See Source »

...physicists' report casts into doubt that decades of research and untold billions of dollars will make SDI what the most rabid in the Administration want it to be: a mechanism to disarm any who oppose the unchecked extension of this country's interests. But decades and billions might see some part of that demented fantasy realized. What we must do is scuttle SDI together with the weapons it is designed to deter. And if others refuse to lay aside their arms together with us, then...

Author: By Andrew J. Sussman, | Title: Shooting Down 'Star Wars' | 4/29/1987 | See Source »

...Their first film, the independently made hit Blood Simple, was a brilliant parody of film noir and the best example of that genre made since the death of James Cain. Raising Arizonais a different sort of film altogether, a hyperkinetic comedy with a budget. But it still betrays a rabid obsession with movies, from its constant toying with technical effects to the incessant Gremlins--style stream of references to others movies. Some are obvious, while others are maddeningly oblique and occasionally the film degenerates into a mass Trivial Pursuit game. It's us against the Coens. They...

Author: By Peter D. Sagal, | Title: The Coens Raise a Little Cain | 3/27/1987 | See Source »

...claims to be a "rabid union-man" after betraying his fellow actors while president of the Screen Actors Guild and busting the air-traffic controllers union when president of the United States. He tells Israeli and Jewish leaders he filmed death camps at the end of World War II "so I'd never forget," yet he spent the war at home. No matter that many of his stories are false and others distant memories of movies seen long ago: He's just making a point. And Americans, who twice have elected him President, are complicit in the make believe...

Author: By Steven Lichtman, | Title: ON BOOKS | 3/3/1987 | See Source »

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