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...punchy, fast-talking gal looking to get her husband Johnny (Dermot Mulroney) back from a gangster, Seldom Seen (Harry Belafonte), whom he foolishly irked. Kidnapping Carolyn Stilton (Miranda Richardson), the doped-up wife of a prominent politician, arises as the logical solution: she hopes to force Mr. Stilton to sic the police on the gangster...

Author: By Nicolas R. Rapold, | Title: Hitting All the Right Notes | 7/18/1997 | See Source »

...with them into hiding was "absurd. We know where every bank account is. Every penny is accounted for." By last December, however, the tune had changed: 1995 tax forms for the United Secularists of America, one of American Atheists' affiliated groups, stated, "The $612,000 shown as a decease [sic] in net assets...represents the value of the United Secularists of America's assets believed to be in the possession of Jon Murray, former Secretary. The whereabouts of Jon Murray and these assets have not been known since September 1995 and is not known to the organization at this time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHERE'S MADALYN? | 2/10/1997 | See Source »

...military's experimental "focused newtron [sic] beam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Nov. 25, 1996 | 11/25/1996 | See Source »

...article quoted the letter: "I am a person who can't swim chocking [sic] for life in a river....All you have to do is give me a hand and put into words what you already know...

Author: By Matthew W. Granade, | Title: Thernstrom to Publish Book on Murder-Suicide | 11/23/1996 | See Source »

...WRITES THESE PROBLEM SETS????" screamed the blinking headline of the posting by a student calling himself Bromobenzene Boy. "There are a whole bunch of badly written and inaccurate questions problem set 6 [sic]," he wrote...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Course Web Talk Unexpected | 11/8/1996 | See Source »

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