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...tryst in Red-Headed Woman (she fornicates her way up the social ladder, gets found out and lands in Paris with a new sugar daddy and a stud chauffeur). These guys and dolls could dish it out and just as surely take it. Even glamour types felt the sting of the Depression. In Blonde Venus, Marlene Dietrich sells her virtue for the price of a meal for herself and her child: 85[cents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Back to the Dirty '30s | 8/30/1999 | See Source »

...just good-hearted, they're also good listening--and almost always on the cutting edge. Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool (1994) deftly combines the talents of jazz acts (Ron Carter, Joshua Redman) and hip-hoppers (the Roots, Spearhead). Red Hot + Rio (1996) features such performers as Maxwell, Sting and Cape Verdean singer Cesaria Evora exploring the music of Brazil; a terrific companion CD, Nova Bossa: Red Hot on Verve, showcases the work of Brazilian acts from the '50s, '60s and '70s (Antonio Carlos Jobim, Caetano Veloso...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Beautifully Blurred | 8/30/1999 | See Source »

...more than just bland airline food. Drug Enforcement Administration agents arrested more than 50 employees of the airline and its subcontractors in Miami Wednesday, after exposing a scheme in which drugs were concealed in the carts loaded in Colombia and then removed on arrival in the U.S. An undercover sting operation had also enticed the suspects into smuggling weapons and explosives aboard planes. Agents began investigating the smuggling ring after in-flight coffee, which an American pilot had complained was too weak, turned out to have been accidentally laced with heroin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Would You Like the Chicken, the Beef or the Cocaine? | 8/25/1999 | See Source »

...would do if something similar happened at his school. "I thought I'd be a hero--tackle the gunman and wrestle him down," he said. In the event, though, "what I did was run." Rosa was still wondering whether T.J. was using a cap gun when he felt a sting in his leg. He joined the fleeing crowd, ending up in a science lab with other students for several very long minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Just A Routine School Shooting | 5/31/1999 | See Source »

...about the guy that blew up the World Trade Center? No. Why Blood? Because he's a Puerto Rican!" Tone himself is currently serving 10 to 15 years in prison in what he claims are unsubstantiated drug charges. He was arrested as part of "Operation Crown," a somewhat incredulous sting operation supposedly involving more than 1,000 police and federal agents that did result in the arrest of more than 100 members of the Nation on various charges...

Author: By Erik Beach, | Title: CINE MANIC | 4/30/1999 | See Source »

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