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...week after the phone call, Richardson and a State Department team were flying over Gogrial, where tires had to be cleared from a dirt airfield below so they could land. "I get out of the plane, and it's a surreal scene from a Tarzan movie," the Congressman recalls. A delegation of threadbare Dinka fighters from Kerubino's army lined up to greet him. Richardson had on a tie and the same blazer he'd worn for good luck in every other hostage negotiation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BAIL BONDSMAN TO THE WORLD | 12/23/1996 | See Source »

Hearing about the violence Kay endured can seem almost surreal to those at a distance from her life. To those in the middle of it all, though, the abuse has an almost everyday quality about it. Kay's daughter Amanda, 14, a pretty girl with a sharp sense of humor, refers blithely to the time "when Daddy kidnapped us," and remembers going to bed with her shoes on so she could run to the neighbors for help. "I got used to the hitting part," Mandy says, "but what I hated was when he spit in her face or slung food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NO WAY OUT | 12/23/1996 | See Source »

...exacerbated by the absence of Turbo Man, a perfectly awful action figure, from available shelves and by Langston's rivalry for the elusive doll with one Myron Larabee (the comedian Sinbad), a bomb-toting mailman who has gone permanently postal. Director Brian Levant envisions their holiday world in cheerily surreal terms, and Arnold's other obstacles include an unaccountably savage reindeer, an army of corrupt Santa Clauses and a motorcycle cop who is a sort of uniformed Wile E. Coyote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JINGLING ALL THE WAY TO THE OLD DALMATIAN FARM | 12/2/1996 | See Source »

...mostly on the last eight months of her brother's life, when he moved into her Los Angeles home so she could nurse him. That she could handle; what she didn't expect was that their parents from Spokane, Washington, would move in as well. The result is a surreal mix of medical drama and family comedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: HOW I SPENT MY CANCER VACATION | 12/2/1996 | See Source »

Quake The ultimate release after a rough day at work, Quake makes other action games look like kid's play. Your primal battle: obliterate gruesome monsters infesting a surreal dungeon. It's not what you bought the PC for, but it's what you'll be doing anyway. ($45; Id Software...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOFTWARE | 11/25/1996 | See Source »

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