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...Hittite princesses were Ramesses' seventh and eighth wives; he had taken his first two, Nefertari and Istnofret, at least a decade before he ascended to the throne. Then there was also a harem. "If he got tired of huntin', shootin', rootin' and tootin'," says Liverpool's Kitchen, "he could wander through the garden and blow a kiss at one of these ladies." By the time he took over from Seti, Ramesses had at least five sons and two daughters. One of Istnofret's sons was Merneptah, Ramesses' 13th boy, who eventually succeeded him (the older ones are presumed to have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: SECRETS OF THE LOST TOMB | 5/29/1995 | See Source »

...quite a bit less than half of what Reagan and Schwarzkopf collect. But he commanded the Cow Palace for 2 1/2 hours with only a 15-min. break to sell his tapes, both audio and video. How to Stay Motivated was $169.95, Courtship After Marriage was $60. "The whole shootin' match, value $2,515," could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Let's Get Motivated | 5/2/1994 | See Source »

...rises rifle fire sweeps down, both random and specific, as rival gangs contest territory and drug- marketing turf. In Cabrini, as Coyle relates, "gunfire is discussed like weather. Better go shopping early, because they're gonna shoot tonight. They sure were shooting last night, weren't they? They was shootin' early this morning, but then it let up . . ." The annual homicide count, as Coyle notes, regularly exceeds that of several states...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Busters At Bat | 1/31/1994 | See Source »

...relatives dead or in jail, and except for their conversation. After one girl gangster shoots at another but misses, a gentle 10-year-old Kikuyu says, "I think I heard the bullet. It go fooooosh, right past my head." His buddy scoffs, "What, you never seen nobody do no shootin' before? Man, I seen that mess every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Busters At Bat | 1/31/1994 | See Source »

...think we waste gooks for freedom?" says the Marine called Animal Mother (Adam Baldwin). Crazy Earl (Kieron Jecchins), who poses next to a sprawling Viet Cong corpse, pays ironic tribute to the enemy: "After we rotate back to the world, we're gonna miss not havin' anybody around worth shootin'." Later, when he picks off a couple of V.C. like fairground ducks, his face creases in a smile of dread...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Welcome To Viet Nam, the Movie: II FULL METAL JACKET | 6/29/1987 | See Source »

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