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Like Jonathan, my childhood best friend Jessica keeps kosher, and she would stare at me longingly as I ate my daily two-pack. One day last year, she called me from college...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kosher, Schmosher. Try This Twinkie. | 2/1/1992 | See Source »

...astonishingly mobile. When Long Beach cops saturated the "Anaheim corridor" this summer after a burst of shoot-outs, the Cambodian gangs vanished. "They took off for Stockton and Modesto -- maybe farther," says Mike Nen, an ethnic-Cambodian cop. Adds gang detective Sorenson: "The Hispanics sit on the corner and stare at you. The Asians might fly to Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From Killing Fields to Mean Streets | 11/18/1991 | See Source »

...stage directions speak of a "real, if alcoholic, affection" expressed between Tyrone and Edmund, but this never becomes apparent. O'Neil; emphasized human kinship as a source of isolation but also of communality--O'Neil's love for his third wife empowered him to write this play and stare his own tragedies in the face...

Author: By Vineeta Vijayaraghavan, | Title: A Relentless Journey into Night | 11/15/1991 | See Source »

This movie respects the viewer, and what pleasures that affords! In the first scene, look closely as Billy (Loren Dean, a find) stares at an older gangster, and imagine in their facial resemblance the kind of dead-end foot soldier the boy could become in 10 years, if he were not as lucky as he proves to be. Catch the cool stare of society dame Drew Preston (Nicole Kidman), the captive, then mistress, of Dutch (Hoffman); her eyes don't move from his as he submits her face to the indignity of a first caress. Listen to the whisper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Extra! Billy Bathgate Lives! | 11/4/1991 | See Source »

...neighbor family abused me repeatedly over a period of two weeks. My brother played with the family's younger children often. I was never particularly friendly with them. The neighbor kid would throw me down on the ground, and sit on top of me. He'd stare down into my face and recite obscenities as he manipulated my genitals. This happened four or five times, two of them in front of my brother and the kid's siblings...

Author: By Liam T.A. Ford, | Title: Not All Men Are Scum | 10/22/1991 | See Source »

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