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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...becomes a burden. She too often minimizes Mapplethrope's sociopathic impulses, which appeared early on in childhood, when, according to the book, he took delight in killing his pets. Morrisroe also gives a bizarre account of the older Mapplethorpe's torture and starvation of his pets monkey, Scrath, whose skull he kept as a souvenir after the animal's death. Too often, these disturbing incidents are attributed to the various social pressures that Mapplethrope faced: Catholicism, his parents, his background. To be sure, much of the artist's behavior was supposed to be part of the act; Mapplethorpe loved...

Author: By Daley C. Haggar, | Title: Portrait of the Artist as a Young (Flim-Flam) Man | 1/8/1996 | See Source »

...OPERATING TABLE IN A small white room, a naked humanoid creature lies supine and inert--its stomach bulbous; its six fingers slightly curled; a deep, foot-long gash in its right leg. Two humans in white contamination suits circle the creature, slicing its chest, sawing its skull in half, removing internal organs. A third takes notes on a sheet of paper. Behind a window, a fourth person watches, hidden by a surgical mask. The only identifiable figure is the humanoid. Its face shows strain, perhaps pain. When the camera recording the event catches the creature's sightless gaze, an eerie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOPSY OR FRAUD-TOPSY? | 11/27/1995 | See Source »

...confessing his wrongdoing. In one such letter on July 24, Iguchi said there was "zero possibility" that Federal Reserve inspectors would find him out if the bank were to buy back some of the Treasury securities that he had illicitly sold to conceal his losses. The same hubris permeated skull sessions that allegedly took place when Iguchi met with a Daiwa managing director from Osaka and the head of the New York branch on July 28 and 29 in Manhattan's Park Lane Hotel. The indictment said the managing director insisted that the cover-up continue until Daiwa could report...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOTING OUT THE BANK | 11/13/1995 | See Source »

...helmet cracked, and that would have otherwise been my skull," she said. "Helmets are key to bike safety...

Author: By Chana R. Schoenberger, | Title: Police Issue New Bike Rules | 10/12/1995 | See Source »

...Walker of Pennsylvania State University, has announced the best evidence so far that a previously unknown species of hominid strode upright at least 4 million years ago. Their find, reported in last week's Nature, consists of complete upper and lower jaws, teeth from several individuals, a piece of skull, arm bones and a leg bone. Taken together, the fossils push the emergence of two-legged walking, or bipedalism, 500,000 years earlier than any other data had indicated. Says Walker: "This gets close to the hypothesized time of splitting of the ape and human lineages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ON ITS OWN TWO FEET | 8/28/1995 | See Source »

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