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...videos was wobbly and out of focus, but clear enough to shock Canadians last week as they watched late-night national television news. One of the tapes showed soldiers of the elite Airborne Regiment at Petawawa, Ontario, a base 115 km northwest of Ottawa, participating in vicious and racist hazing rituals in 1992. In one scene a black recruit crawled across the ground, with symbols declaring ``I love the Ku Klux Klan'' daubed in excrement on his back. Another soldier was shown being forced to eat urine-soaked bread. The second tape depicted Airborne members in Somalia in 1993, where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACISM IN THE RANKS | 1/30/1995 | See Source »

Maggie catches a break when she meets Jorge (Vladimir Vega), a gentle Paraguayan refugee. But as they try to create their own family, Maggie's past haunts them. So does her bad temper. Brutalized as a child, she has a vicious streak and a suspicion of Jorge's goodness. Any man who doesn't strike her- and strike out at the system that she believes oppresses her-well, he can't be a real man, can he? Heroically, Jorge endures Maggie's depressions, rages and physical abuse. All he can do is love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Jan. 30, 1995 | 1/30/1995 | See Source »

...ecosystem where the threads of life are tightly interwoven. All of the citizens of North Bath are completely dependent on one other. After sueing him for lost wages and then stealing his snowblower, Sully isn't surprised to find Carl curled up on his couch later that night. As vicious as their relationship may be, Sully is still a source of comfort. And when Sully wins his lawyer's wooden leg in the weekly poker game, Wirf knows it is only a matter of time before he gets it back...

Author: By Jonathan Bonanno, | Title: Touchingly Redemptive 'Fool' | 1/20/1995 | See Source »

Artful equivocations are even worse; lynx-eyed sly little rascals that we are we see right through them. (Up to exam 40. Then our lynx eyes droop, and grading habits relax. Try to get on the bottom of the pile.) Again, it is not that A.E.'s are vicious or ludicrous as such; but in quantity they become sheer madness. Or induce it. "The 20th century has never recovered from the effects of Marx and Freud" (V.G.); "but whether this is a good thing or a bad thing is difficult to say." (A.E.) Now one such might be droll enough...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Grader's Reply | 1/18/1995 | See Source »

...superstar Michael Jackson today brought a $100 million lawsuit against Paramount Pictures, the producers of "Hard Copy," calling a January 9 report aired by the TV tabloid show "slanderous, vicious and wholly fabricated." Diane Dimond, the "Hard Copy" reporter for the segment, claimed that a videotape had surfaced, allegedly showing Jackson sexually involved with a young boy, and that prosecutors had reopened their child molestation case against the singer. The Los Angeles District Attorney's office has denied that it is investigating such a tape. Also named in the suit: "Hard Copy" producer Stephen Doran, two hosts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PARAMOUNT . . . THE PRICE OF FLAME | 1/13/1995 | See Source »

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