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...hands move toward her writhing body. The camera heightens the suggestion of what is to come without allowing the scene to become graphic; there is no nudity, but there is plenty of screaming and leering. When the deed is done, the audience lets out a barely audible sigh of relief. Or is it pleasure? For Ashok Rawat, 28, a building contractor, it is the latter. Says he: "Rape is enjoyable because in men's fantasies force is the only way to get women who are otherwise out of reach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Romance and A Little Rape | 8/13/1990 | See Source »

...past few years, the Harvard campus has not been as beautiful as it used to be," the article read. "Garbage could be seen every-where, and it smelled. When old students see this they talk about it and all they can do is sigh...

Author: By Stephen J. Newman, | Title: The Newest Harvard Hero? | 7/31/1990 | See Source »

...that, with the exception of some outraged whites in Bensonhurst, New Yorkers heaved an almost palpable sigh of relief last week when a jury consisting of six whites, three blacks, two Hispanics and an Asian convicted the accused gunman of second-degree murder. But only one day later, the relief was replaced by dismay. A second jury acquitted Mondello, 19, of murder and manslaughter but found him guilty of several lesser charges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broken Mosaic | 5/28/1990 | See Source »

When Kuchchi Devi, 24, and her husband Dhanraj, 26, used to walk together to the well for a bath, the villagers of Saton Dharampur would sigh at the grace of this "pair of swans," as they were called. He was tall and handsome. She was lovely, with smooth skin and sloping eyes. The local landlord, Arjun Singh, noticed Kuchchi's beauty too. One day last month he approached her as she cut wheat in his fields and offered her two bullocks and other favors if she would sleep with him. Dhanraj angrily told Singh to leave his wife alone. That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India A Local Custom Called Cruelty | 5/28/1990 | See Source »

Herrera has fashioned a demure tweed costume with the merest sigh of a skirt and rust-colored crushed-velvet tights -- guaranteed to conquer any corporate board. But she cautions against the indiscriminate use of patterns. "They have to be very special," she says. "Otherwise you look as if you have a terrible disease on your legs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: Stripping Down to Essentials | 5/14/1990 | See Source »

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