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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...second-floor office John Aydelott, a member of the university faculty, heard the roar of the bomb, looked down and saw a woman lying in the street. "Her shoulder had been blown away," he recounted, "and her legs were slashed. A man nearby was nothing but a torso...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bombs in The Name of Allah | 8/30/1993 | See Source »

...remains of another was found stuffed beneath a rotting mattress near Kennedy Airport. (Investigators located the remains only after Rifkin told them where to look.) Suddenly, a perpetrator had emerged for unsolved mysteries -- a body found two years ago in a steamer trunk adrift in the Harlem River; a torso and dismembered limbs discovered last summer floating off Manhattan. A bloodied wheelbarrow and a chainsaw found in Rifkin's garage suggested macabre labors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Landscaper's Secrets | 7/12/1993 | See Source »

...well as stones. Her chief metaphor, as Brenson (who wrote the catalogs for both shows) points out, is "the enchanted forest," which "can be traced back to animistic peoples for whom trees and forests were fearfully and delightfully alive." The tree trunk refers to, and sometimes becomes, the human torso. The "mutilated Eden" of Poland's forest turns into a metaphor of human loss and survival. In the Marlborough show are four bronzes, each 10 ft. to 12 ft. high, called Hand-Like Trees, whose vertical trunks do resemble arms: their looming profiles recall Rodin's standing Balzac, and their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dark Visions Of Primal Myth | 6/7/1993 | See Source »

Even with a healthy team, though. Harvard would have been hard pressed to make it close against Cornell. The Big Red is a head, shoulders, torso, waist and legs above the rest of the Ivy league...

Author: By Mike Maciszewski, | Title: Grapplers Go 1-3 on Weekend | 2/16/1993 | See Source »

HANDCUFFS, YES. HOT CANDLE WAX DRIPping on Willem Dafoe's naked torso -- that too. But the nipple clamps remain an unfulfilled promise. And so does BODY OF EVIDENCE, in which Madonna plays a woman on trial for murdering a lover by inducing a heart-straining sexual frenzy. It sounds like a promising part for the best-selling author of Sex. But movies get rated, and trying to stay on the sunny side of an R, this one turns into a static courtroom drama -- and not very well made or played either. Madonna's function is to irritate the decorous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Short Takes: Feb. 1, 1993 | 2/1/1993 | See Source »

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