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...generally tasteful and effective manner. Macbeth delivers his "dagger soliloquy" under the influence of alcohol, and Shakespear's Porter becomes his soused bartender. Moreover, Birnam wood does not come to Dunsinane as camouflage of war, but rather through its use in the manufacture of the enemy's weapon...

Author: By Carolyn B. Rendell, | Title: Banquo Meets Brando In Innovative Macbeth | 5/1/1992 | See Source »

...question is nuclear, and how much plutonium they have separated from the spent reactor fuel. We don't really know. But once they have the requisite plutonium, they can have a weapon in from as little as a few months to two years. We believe Pyongyang is close, perhaps very close, to having a nuclear-weapon capability...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: We See a World of More, Not Fewer Mysteries: Robert Gates | 4/20/1992 | See Source »

...Robert Luongo, a Kennedy-assassination buff from Florida, it seemed only natural to tell a policeman that he had Jack Ruby's pistol in his suitcase as he strolled near the U.S. Capitol. But when Luongo offered to show the historic weapon to House Speaker Tom Foley a few moments later, the cop arrested Luongo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Firearms: Have Gun, Will Travel | 4/13/1992 | See Source »

...nuclear warheads hundreds of miles. U.N. forces dismantled two models in Iraq last year, one an incomplete version with a barrel 165 yards long. But Western intelligence agents in the Middle East are nervously tracking another design that is much easier to build. Unlike earlier models, the new weapon uses ordinary 1/8-in. bridge wire, a steel fiber common in the construction of suspension bridges. Spun while red-hot around large-diameter steel pipe, the wire strengthens the barrel enough to withstand the pressures of firing long-distance shells. Syria, Libya and other potential users would have no trouble manufacturing such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Weapon That Won't Go Away | 4/13/1992 | See Source »

...company managed the first convincingly in Backdraft and the second with the slinky pseudopod in The Abyss. An ILM team led by Steve Williams animated -- brought to life, if you will -- the T-1000 creature in T2, which could transform itself from, say, linoleum into a lethal humanoid weapon. "Movie effects have been the same for a hundred years, and they're changing this year," Williams, 30, says with a visionary's lack of modesty. "This is the milestone right here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: They Put The ILM In Film | 4/13/1992 | See Source »

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