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...spit-and-shine military town of Lawton, Okla., real men ain't supposed to cry. This is the home of Fort Sill, a U.S. Army post, where soldiers learn to kill with gun, mortar and missile, where the big boys belly up to the bar at Gertlestone's pub and down stiff shots of Jaegermeister, where the measure of a man lies partly in his ability to tuck his pain away in a place where nobody--nobody--can see it. No tears allowed in plain sight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOD OF OUR FATHERS | 10/6/1997 | See Source »

...park ranger, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that the defiant crowd turned on a police officer at one point. The park ranger pitched in to help, only to be "tackled and spit [on] by the crowd...

Author: By Jung K. Kim, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Friends of Cannabis Rally for Legalization | 9/22/1997 | See Source »

...that computers aren't already used to enhance performances, smoothing out crow's-feet here, filling in a depleted hairline there, even, as one London-based f/x man described it to the Guardian, removing "a dribble of spit" from Tom Cruise's chin for a scene in Mission: Impossible. But this is mere tweakery. A Japanese company has created a digital teen idol, Kyoko Date, who performs in music videos. "She," however, is based on the anatomical parts of various real girls. Dennis Muren, who has won eight Oscars as the senior visual-effects supervisor at George Lucas' Industrial Light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HAVE GIGABYTES, WILL ACT | 9/1/1997 | See Source »

...city choked by traffic, has escalated into a war. On the last Friday in July, 5,000 cyclists participating in what is known as the Critical Mass bikeathon, jammed city streets, and the result resembled an episode of American Gladiators. Hemorrhaging cyclists and motorists squared off to scream, spit and throw hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SAN FRANCISCO: THE SCARIEST BIKER GANG OF ALL | 8/11/1997 | See Source »

...pulp, and where unacceptable behavior has never been bad for the gate. Holyfield himself once bit an opponent, "Jakey" Winters, during a Golden Gloves bout in 1980. Holyfield, who gnawed Winters' shoulder during a clinch, says he still had his mouth guard in at the time. Winters insists Holyfield spit it out first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFTER THE BITE | 7/14/1997 | See Source »

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