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...victims of torture, the world is a minefield of horrifying memories. One woman panics whenever she sees a dark Ford like the one that hauled her away to severe beatings and a gang rape. Some survivors have trouble entering bathrooms, because the tile, lighting and smell summon up images of their torture chambers. "How do you cure torture?" asks Genevieve Cowgill, 44, director of the Canadian Center for Investigation and Prevention of Torture. "It's not something you can simply talk victims...
...chief of the Central Committee's International Department. Speaking of Africa, I remarked on the futility of "playing with some pissant little 'liberation' committees that come into being overnight and disappear after a few months." Zagladin's response was revealing: "You sound just like your boss. Gromyko has no smell for the ideological side of things. He's just too pragmatic, and so are you. You Foreign Ministry people don't understand the power of Communist ideas in the world and the way to exploit them...
THERE'S A DEATHWISH in this movie. From the opening scene, in which the protagonist Morgan Hiller (James Spader) narrowly averts decapitation by a slashing car aerial, to the final fight, involving everything from dart guns to fireaxes, the smell of blood hangs heavy in the air. And the strangest aspect of this adolescent brinksmanship is its complete premeditation--every character consciously seeks out dangerous situations and harrowing relationships...
...Make, movement, rarity," says Los Angeles Lawyer Jack Quinn. "That's what the serious collector looks for." Muses Hans Rohrer, a computer manager in Munich: "These pieces are reverse time machines. They exude a flavor--even a musty smell--of yesterday, a bit of immortality." Rohrer keeps all his yesterdays in a drawer at home. Quinn keeps the family immortality collection snug in a bank vault, although his journalist wife Joan has been known to wear several pieces of it, simultaneously, on her wrist...
...sold as sluggishly as Edsels in the late 1950s. Consumers seemed to be turned off by the computer's toylike appearance and $1,269 price tag. Dealers, stuck with growing inventories of unsold machines, were beginning to panic. Wrote Popular Computing Columnist Steven Levy: "The machine has the smell of death about...