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...Before the two figures is a tumbled mass of emblems of the world: armor and a wheel-lock gun (military glory), a bishop's miter and a papal tiara (religious authority), a laurel wreath (cultural fame), money, jewels, playing cards, sheet music-and a mirror that reflects only a skull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: FOOD FOR THOUGHT | 5/22/1995 | See Source »

Grant's crime was particularly gruesome. She bludgeoned her mother to death, striking her in the head 13 times with a lead crystal candlestick and crushing her skull. Thereafter, she and her boyfriend mutilated the body, inserting a knife into the dead woman's neck in an effort to make her death appear to be a suicide, and nearly severing her spinal cord...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Correct In Rejecting Grant | 4/12/1995 | See Source »

...doesn't belong at Harvard." Frank saidyesterday. "She murdered her mother brutally andin cold blood by bashing her skull in, that speaksfor itself...

Author: By Sewell Chan, | Title: Rally Planned to Support Grant | 4/12/1995 | See Source »

...called Canada's action "a lawless act against the sovereignty of a member state of the European Union." This is simply two-faced talk. Predictably, the Spanish played it up. Protests drew thousands of demonstrators carrying Canadian flags marred with a skull and crossbones, angrily calling the Canadians 'pirates...

Author: By Patrick S. Chung, | Title: Of Fish and Politics | 4/8/1995 | See Source »

Some movie stars measure their worth by how many millions of dollars they make. Jackie Chan, Asian action-star extraordinaire, measures his by how many of his bones he has fractured while executing his films' incredible stunts. Let him count the breaks: "My skull, my eyes, my nose three times, my jaw, my shoulder, my chest, two fingers, a knee-everything from the top of my head to the bottom of my feet." Chan broke an ankle while jumping onto a moving Hovercraft in his new film, Rumble in the Bronx, which opened in time for Chinese New Year last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JACKIE CAN! | 2/13/1995 | See Source »

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