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...probably that Road Warrior thing--I think that did quite well, and not in the cinema either, but on cable--it's like indigestion, it keeps coming back...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mad Mel Gibson Kills Again | 3/12/1987 | See Source »

...Harvard (3-0-1) can't count Hartwick out. The Warrior team that made three straight trips to the NCAA semis isn't gone...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, | Title: Men Booters Set to Burn 'Wick at Ohiri | 3/10/1987 | See Source »

...Symms, 23, was out of control. Gaining speed, he torpedoed down a crowded ski slope, squatting sideways on a single plank of laminated wood that resembled a stubby ski. His body shimmied while he extended his arms like outriggers, hands flailing. "I'm going down again!" yelled the weekend warrior. He promptly crashed face down in the white powder. Nearby, a heavyset Texan leaned on his ski poles and watched intently: "Now what in the hell is that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Snowboarders Invade the Slopes | 3/9/1987 | See Source »

...easy loping walk through the meadows, Moses sings a warrior song. There is a falsetto line of rapid narrative in these songs that is interrupted with a chorus of bass organ tones fetched from deep in the chest -- low, menacing warrior iterations, animal noises proclaiming war beneath the almost soprano narration. Moses is performing both the falsetto and the deep, sinister chorus. The deep tones of the chorus are like the lowest register of a fierce harmonica. The song is about the Masai clans, about old drought and famine. An old laibon says, don't worry, because the warriors will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

There is a warrior lope that goes along with the song, although Moses does not give it the full treatment now. Chin and chest jut forward at the assertion of organ tone: Hunnnnnnh! Hunnnnnnnnh! The Masai know how to look dangerous, and sound dangerous. And the history of East African warfare confirms that they are dangerous. But the visitor wonders why the hands of the men are so oddly soft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

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