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...real world, the new mood was manifested by all the women flocking to gun stores and subscribing to Women & Guns, the magazine that tells you how to accessorize a neat little sidearm. And, without any prompting from NOW, thousands of women are sporting bumper stickers identifying themselves as BEYOND BITCH and buying T shirts that say TOUGH ENOUGH or make unflattering comparisons between cucumbers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Feminism Confronts Bobbittry | 1/24/1994 | See Source »

MINISTRY OF MORALS. Women in Saudi Arabia who drive cars or show too much leg are routinely persecuted by the mutawain, the country's dreaded "morals police." Now non-Muslim women are rejoicing at a rumor that a U.S. servicewoman pulled her 9-mm sidearm on a mutawain zealot who tried to stop her from driving a military vehicle near the Dhahran air base. The mutawain officer has reportedly been suspended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Footnotes From the Front | 10/1/1990 | See Source »

Despite the flamboyance of his rhetoric, officials say McGee has committed no crimes because he is not advocating "imminent lawless action." Indeed, the sidearm he packs in a leather holster is a slingshot. But Mayor John Norquist charges that McGee's firebrand behavior is "doing more to scare jobs away from his district" than to help it. "It's one thing to try to attract investment and capital," says Norquist. "It's another to use extortion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eruptions in The Heartland: MCGEE'S MILITIA | 4/23/1990 | See Source »

...late." Edberg is only 23, but everyone in Paris felt a little older. "Chang's young," he said. "Maybe he doesn't think that much." By four months, Chang displaced two-time Wimbledon champion Boris Becker as the youngest major champion of the modern era. With his charming, sidearm delivery, Becker, 21, said, "Almost-the-older-ones you have to call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Youth Will Be Served | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

...eyes could have honored bizarre local customs more graciously. She took a rock out of her pocket, explained that it came from the top of Everest, and asked politely whether she could heave it through the studio window. "Of course," said Letterman. She chucked it with a good sidearm motion, and there was the familiar sound effect of breaking glass that Letterman fans have grown to love. Fade to commercial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Climbing Mount Everest: What It Takes To Reach the Summit | 3/6/1989 | See Source »

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