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...tells Martha Lorrie Diaz, a friend of McKinny's, that women cops are ineffectual "because they don't do anything. They don't go out and initiate a contact with some 6-ft. 5-in. nigger that's been in prison for seven years pumping weights." And in a twist almost unbelievable even in Simpsonland, he discusses-using derogatory language-run-ins with Ito's wife, police captain Margaret York, which suddenly raised the issue of whether Ito should continue to preside over the trial. In the words of a key prosecution source who has listened to portions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: O.J. SIMPSON CASE: THE TALE OF THE TAPES | 8/28/1995 | See Source »

...solid twist on Tarantino Cheek is The Usual Suspects, written by Christopher McQuarrie and directed by Bryan Singer. The film echoes Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs, but with less hysteria and a more intricate plot. For its quintet of thieves lusting for the big score, The Usual Suspects convenes five scarred souls, including a chatty gimp (Spacey) and an anguished antihero (Byrne). In California on a quick job, they run up against a vicious, unseen ganglord named Keyser Soze-a name that has the smolder of Satan in it. One by one, the thieves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: THE INDIE 500 | 8/28/1995 | See Source »

...kindred--in most important respects, all but indistinguishable--are the various Yugoslavs who wage this "domestic fury." One sign of tempered passions was the purge of Banja Luka, a comfortable seat of mixed traditions before the war. Chastened Bosnian Serb forces carried out ethnic purification here with a new twist: allowing some 5,000 Croats and Muslims to leave peaceably...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SAME LAND, SAME FATE | 8/28/1995 | See Source »

...were on their side. "They are frontiersmen," said one Western diplomat in Belgrade, who pointed out that Serbs were first sent to Krajina by the Austro-Hungarian Empire as a buffer against the Turks. "These guys were the eternal defense." On Saturday night, however, the situation took an unexpected twist when word arrived that the entire Krajina Serb army seemed to have vanished. While Serb resistance could simply have scattered in the face of the Croats' furious advance, the mystery of the Krajina army's disappearance immediately provoked suspicions that the Croatian Serbs may have been headed en masse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GUNS OF AUGUST | 8/14/1995 | See Source »

...Sisters." About: The trials and tribulations of four grown sisters." Okay. I'll grant the Center the claim that "Sisters" has a liberal twist. The sisters and their friends and offspring sleep around. They have gay friends. They support Clinton and his ilk. They're liberals, all of them...

Author: By Marion B. Gammill, | Title: A Really Funny Top 10 List | 7/25/1995 | See Source »

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