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...when he first met Colonel Aviam Sella, one of Israel's best-known younger military officers, through a mutual acquaintance. The Israeli colonel at the time was taking a course in computer engineering at New York University. Pollard offered to spy for the Israelis and soon began to steal documents from the Naval Investigative Service in Suitland, Md., where he worked. On a trip to Paris that fall, he met Yosef Yagur, scientific attache at the Israeli consulate in New York City, and Rafi Eitan, the former deputy head of Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency. Eitan was running the small...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Espionage Spying Between Friends | 3/16/1987 | See Source »

...composers get up at 5 in the morning?" Morricone does not use his regal Steinway grand for composition, but sits over his score paper at a desk in his workroom. The room, kept locked against the incursions of four children, ages 20 to 30, who still come by and "steal my records," also accommodates a broken 17th century organ, a functioning studio-size recording console, piles of music books and tapes, and a secret desk drawer filled with soap filched from hotel rooms around the world. At the moment, Morricone is in the throes of scoring Brian DePalma's upcoming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ennio Morricone: The Lyrical Assassin at 5 a.m. | 3/16/1987 | See Source »

Unlike most mad scientists, however, Dewitt's object is not to conquer the world with zombies brought back from the grave, nor to steal the brain of a buxom virgin; no, Dewitt aims much higher than those petty goals. His intention is to fuse the breath of life into the lost casualties of Hollywood...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Dewitt | 3/12/1987 | See Source »

Some Kind of Wonderful rather too starkly exhibits Hughes' standard procedure. It has one of his attractive misfits, shy, sensitive Keith (Eric Stoltz) obsessively trying to steal popular, vapid Amanda (Lea Thompson) away from her rich, bullying boyfriend. Keith does not notice that his lifelong best buddy, Watts (Mary Stuart Masterson, who is fine), has, for all her tomboyish ways, grown into a much more interesting and sexy girl than Amanda. Or that she truly loves him. That recognition is for the last minute, and it teaches Keith, Amanda and the whole school lessons in personal integrity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Teen Turmoil SOME KIND OF WONDERFUL | 3/9/1987 | See Source »

...others. David said that, yes, the warriors still obeyed Masai tradition by raiding other tribes for cattle. The Masai believe that in the beginning, God (Enkai) bestowed all the world's cattle upon the Masai. Therefore, when Masai warriors go down into Tanzania to raid a Kuria village and steal cows, they are merely taking back what already belongs to them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

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