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...subjects talk about death, murder, suicide in the thousands; they describe the stench of rotting and burning flesh; they recall the feeling of human hair in their hands as theywere compelled to shave those condemned to murder; they describe the feeling of carrying stiff corpses rigid from the gas chambers. At most one could attempt to convey the feeling of watching it, of listening to people speak about unspeakable horrors which they have themselves experienced. In nearly 10 hours, (the film is shown in two halves, on separate nights) there is not a slow moment, not a gratuitous detail...
...Royal Air Force senior aircraftsman, told his parents that he admitted to espionage only after being informed that they too would be arrested. Christopher Payne, 26, another R.A.F. defendant, claimed that he was denied use of the bathroom for twelve hours at a time and made to shave three or four times a day until his face bled. The Thatcher government has promised an independent inquiry into the interrogations. But there was no escaping the conclusion that after many embarrassments over porousness in the British intelligence services, the government failed to demonstrate that the leaks are being plugged...
Erotic advertising is popping up everywhere, promoting everything from after-shave lotions to exercise machines. The eye-catching and pulse- quickening ads are breaking many of the unwritten rules that once governed the industry. While there is nothing new about using sex as a sales allure, many of the current ads reveal considerably more skin and make a far racier pitch than ever before. One ad, for example, shows a man clad in little but shaving cream, his eyes closed, one arm tightly embracing a scantily clad woman as she wields the razor. The object being promoted: Swatch watches...
Fred Myers, 84, got up to shave last week in his Knoxville home, looked out the window and saw a body in his backyard. Police found the remains of Andrew Carter Thornton II, 40, snarled in a parachute. Along with 79 lbs. of cocaine, two pistols, knives and $4,500 in cash, Thornton carried night-vision goggles and wore a bulletproof vest. Police believe he had smuggled the drugs, with a value of $15 million, in a twin-engine Cessna. He put the plane on * automatic pilot and bailed out. At treetop level, his chute became fouled. Instead of landing...
...French news agency Agence France Presse and ABC News were invited by militiamen to walk out onto the tarmac to have a chat with TWA Captain John Testrake, 57, pilot of the ill-fated Flight 847. He sat in the cockpit, looking fit but somewhat in need of a shave, with a pistol- toting gunman at his side. Not far away was the hulk of a Jordanian airliner destroyed by Shi'ite terrorists a week earlier...