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Dates: during 1990-1999
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They -- the bosses -- wish. But the men with the money know they have had to hand a lot out to get a lot more back. And Arnold or Sly Stallone didn't need an Uzi to coax $12 million out of a production chief's pocket. Considering the current wave of penny-pinching promises, Variety's Art Murphy predicts that "smaller will be better. Until a producer overpays a star for a film that turns into a monster hit." And the cycle will continue, as long as people are fascinated by the mystery of charisma and will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Entertainment: Do Stars Deliver? | 8/26/1991 | See Source »

...spit at a ball game recently, she crossed the line between comedy and crudity. For an emerging group of female laugh getters, grossing out audiences is left to the likes of Andrew Dice Clay and Sam Kinison. Coven-like hairstyles are passe; so are Elizabeth Taylor fat jokes, delivered Uzi-style a la Joan Rivers, and the kind of masochistic self-deprecation that kept Phyllis Diller in face-lifts for two decades. The freshest funnywomen have power smiles, well-toned bodies and social commentary that ticks before it detonates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business Sauce, Satire and Shtick | 11/8/1990 | See Source »

...Untouchables, the Thompson submachine gun, it turns out, can still outmatch some of its modern successors: one of its .45-cal. slugs, spewed out at a rate of up to 800 rounds a minute, will knock down even the biggest bad guy. By contrast, the Israeli-made Uzi, the current weapon of choice among many criminals and some lawmen, uses smaller bullets; one hit is often not enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: O.K., Louie, Drop the Gun | 9/10/1990 | See Source »

...harmless adjuncts to male crews, have become dangerous, independent groups. In an interview with Taylor's research team, one female gang member bragged of ousting unwanted guests who tried to "bum rush" a party. The guests fled, she said, after "I cut loose on their fake asses with that Uzi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Up From The Streets: Carl S. Taylor | 4/30/1990 | See Source »

...night during my first year, I had a horrifying dream. In this dream, a group of women invaded a great hall where the members of every final club at Harvard were eating dinner. Using UZI submachine guns, we systematically eliminated these men, cornered the last cowering club member, and were about to dispose of him when I awoke...

Author: By Davida F. Mcdonald, | Title: . . .Cause for Modest Proposal | 3/22/1990 | See Source »

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