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...short supply. "It's just the New Orleans mentality," one Orleanian, who had evacuated, told me this week as he returned into the deserted city to survey its annihilation, "to think they can ride out anything. It's almost like a challenge-like if they hear of the seediest bar, they want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Changing the Hurricane Culture | 9/8/2005 | See Source »

...murderer. Vince Grayson (DeForest Kelley in his movie debut, 19 years before he became ?Bones? McCoy on ?Star Trek?) has memories of a mirrored room and a woman watching as he strangles a man. Vince?s policeman brother-in-law Cliff (Paul Kelly, who looks like the seediest possible Johnny Carson), refuses to take his complaint seriously: ?If you want me to arrest you for murdering a man in your dream, well ... I?m off-duty when I?m dreamin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Fear Noir | 12/16/2003 | See Source »

...British loveboat and one-man charm school HUGH GRANT, for reasons best kept to himself, visits the seediest stretch of Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood and invites working girl DIVINE BROWN a.k.a. Pancake a.k.a. Stella Marie Thompson into his rented BMW. They strike a deal that entails his giving her, among other things, $45. At about 1:45 a.m. the local constabulary interrupts. "I did something completely insane," says Grant later. Around the world, people agree. Day's Big Rumor: Brown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YIKES! IT'S JOEY BUTTA-HUGH-CO | 7/10/1995 | See Source »

...scene is similar in the city's bustling train stations. In the crowded waiting room at Kursky station, one of the city's seediest, a teenage gypsy girl stood screaming while blood spurted from gashes on her arms. "I want to die," she wailed. "My life is nothing. I am pregnant, but no one believes me. They think I am lying." She raised a blood-splattered cardigan that reeked of urine to reveal her puffy belly. A middle-aged woman stopped to stare, as the howling resumed, "I can't bear this. I hate this life!" Several militiamen who work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Moscow: City On Edge | 7/4/1994 | See Source »

...official added that Rosen intends to take with him his optician's license and professional pianist's certificate of merit, and that he will open an eye shop in the corner of one of Brixton's seediest pubs...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Charles Coming, Rosen Going | 12/8/1985 | See Source »

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