Word: scissor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Maybe 360 [degree] scissor kicks get boring after a while. Whatever the reason, Darcy LaPier, fourth wife of action star Jean-Claude Van Damme, has filed for divorce--again. The two were wed in 1994. She filed for divorce later that year but changed her mind...
...flaying of celebrities like Gifford and Jordan made it easy to miss the point. For years children have been sold as slaves, blinded or maimed for crying or rebelling or trying to return home, ill-fed, bone-weary, short-lived. They file the scissor blades, mix the gunpowder for the firecrackers, knot the carpets, stitch the soccer balls with needles longer than their fingers. Human-rights groups guess there may be 200 million children around the world, from China to South America, working full time--no play, no school, no chance. All of which raises the question, once the news...
...risks are high. The $40 million film has no stars and has been critically drubbed. Its sole market value, beyond the Eszterhas-Verhoeven brand name, is its rating--the one most directors so fear that they will scissor their films (as Verhoeven did with Basic Instinct) to avoid getting it. Showgirls wears this stigma as a badge of honor and a sales pitch. "Leave your inhibitions at the door," the ads blare. Translation: Dirty movie ahead...
...back cover, Peninsula runs a subscription ad parodying the "Why Ask Why" Budweiser commercial: "Why are scissor sales up?" Why, to cut off penises, as they state on page 7. "Why does Alice Jardine have tenure?" A better question might be, 'Where will she teach now, since Kelly Bowdren's take-no-prisoners expose proves she's just plain loopy?' "Why does my girlfriend own a gun?" Because as a Guardian, I support the Second Amendment: the right to bear arms, and the right to barefoot and pregnant: Yeah, Peninsula...
...costs, of course, are even higher. Adolpho, 17, carries for a dealer in a section of north Camden known as the Danger Zone. Scissor-like scars cut edgewise across his knuckles, and the skin around his throat is mottled with burn marks from the time he put a match to an aerosol can in a street fight. Adolpho has seen five friends die in drug wars. Each time a child is killed, his epitaph is added to the graffiti murals adorning the walls of north Camden's vacant lots. "It can happen at any time to anybody," Adolpho says...