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...Roko Camaj owned the most enviable views in New York City. As a window cleaner for the World Trade Center's Twin Towers, his work space offered staggering panoramas of the city he adopted when he arrived from Montenegro in 1969. Most days, he surveyed the surroundings from indoors, operating a remote cleaning machine from the rooftop; but the windows on the 107th floor could not accommodate the machine, and he would attend to them manually, suspended from a harness. Camaj, 60, was on the observation deck on the 107th floor in 1993 when a bomb hit the building...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Facing The End | 9/24/2001 | See Source »

...July 1, the Sundance-winning Genghis Blues, by enfant terrible Roko Belic, had its theatrical debut. The documentary, which follows bluesman Paul Pena's pilgrimage to a Mongolian border town, resuscitated the career of King of Mongolian Throat Singers Kongar-ol Ondar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time's Up, Nostradamus | 7/19/1999 | See Source »

Horny skater-dude Tommy (Roko Belic) fantasizes constantly and has a lot to say about masturbation. Rounding out the sextet, the hip lesbians Michele (Susan Behshid) and Tricia (Jenee Gill) plot schemes for having a baby, even throwing an insemination party to collect sperm...

Author: By Roland Tan, | Title: F***ED UP | 1/20/1995 | See Source »

HERBERT KALLEM-Roko, 867 Madison Ave. at 72nd. Kallem once shared a studio with Stage Funnyman Zero Mostel (who paints too), is clever enough himself to provoke smiles with plumbing fixtures, pipes, and scrap iron that wind up as owls and other witty figments of his imagination. Through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Art in New York: Dec. 18, 1964 | 12/18/1964 | See Source »

Cleanup. At week's end on New Georgia only a small Jap detachment at Bai-roko Harbor was still to be done in, but victorious units from Munda moved for ward to help in the job. Army engineers and Navy Seabees prepared to restore the 4,000-ft. Munda airstrip, which would bring the U.S. just within fighter-plane range of Rabaul. Eyes turned to Vila, Munda's supplementary airstrip 17 miles away, huddled against the great cone of Kolombangara. That the Japs were determined to cling to Vila was evident when they once more took the impossible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: Beautiful Munda | 8/16/1943 | See Source »

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