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...There is, of course, the movie within the movie, a perfectly pitched and hilarious genre send-up, complete with a woman in perpetual peril (Cathy Moriarty, who is also wonderful as Woolsey's wearied girlfriend). The preview is a riotous muddle at which Woolsey's gimmicks -- Atomo-Vision, Rumble-Rama -- run out of control and literally threaten to bring down the house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It Came from Inner Space | 2/8/1993 | See Source »

...Spic-O-Rama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best of 1992 | 1/4/1993 | See Source »

...Supreme Court of India, eager to preserve the nation as a secular state in which all religions are respected, had ordered that the mosque be left alone. The existence of the mosque, built by a nobleman of a Mughal Emperor in 1528 on the spot where the Hindu god Rama is said to have been born thousands of years earlier, was deemed an insult by many Hindus, egged on by politicians eager to convert fervent faith into political power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Holy Work Destroys All Peace in India | 12/21/1992 | See Source »

After a week of violence, the thousands of kar sevaks, or Hindu holy workers, who destroyed the Muslim shrine in the belief that it covered the birthplace of the Hindu god Rama, have been driven off. Army and police units have restored a semblance of order after Muslim-Hindu rioting left more than 1,100 dead and 4,000 injured. The government has banned three Hindu and two Muslim organizations and arrested the leaders of the major opposition party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Unholy War | 12/21/1992 | See Source »

...October 1990, party leader L.K. Advani escalated his campaign: he led a 6,200-mile procession across India in support of the movement to build the Rama temple. Lethal riots followed, but the extremist spasm had its desired effect. In 1991 the Bharatiya Janata Party won four state governments and 119 seats in the lower house, which made it the official opposition to Rao's ruling Congress Party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Unholy War | 12/21/1992 | See Source »

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