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...cameras while assessing Israeli bomb damage Monday. And for Arafat the ruse is self-defeating, since the further down that road he goes the more difficult becomes the return to negotiations he so desperately seeks, while his erstwhile rivals in the Islamist camp are quite happy to embrace his gun-toting alter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why the "L" Word — Lebanon — Now Haunts the West Bank | 8/28/2001 | See Source »

...Woodland that his case has become a focal point of U.S.-Japan relations or that the Japanese media continue to cover every foolish escapade by U.S. servicemen. And there are many such episodes. During a single week in late July, one U.S. serviceman in Okinawa fired a BB gun at pizza-delivery boys, another tipped over a stranger's motor scooter, another set fire to a car, and a Marine lance corporal was sentenced to five years for arson attacks on stores...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sex And Race In Okinawa | 8/27/2001 | See Source »

...with The Kentucky Fried Movie, a collection of bits adapted from their stage sketches. As a three-headed writing-directing team, the Zucker brothers and Abrahams (known as ZAZ) struck it rich with Airplane! in 1980 and created the Police Squad! TV series, which later became the Naked Gun movies--one of Paramount's most enduring franchises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad Race | 8/20/2001 | See Source »

...Ruthless People in 1986, they had all matured. First, they refrained from including an exclamation mark in that film's title. Second, "we were all capable of directing a movie ourselves," says Jerry, who now runs Zucker Productions with his wife Janet. On their own, David directed the Naked Gun movies, and Abrahams regressed to unnecessary punctuation with the Hot Shots! flicks. Jerry, for his part, decided it was time to put the spoofs behind him. "I got tired of satire," he says. "It was fun, but I didn't feel like doing it again." So he directed Ghost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad Race | 8/20/2001 | See Source »

...result, she has rejoined the battle against the Khars. After Fakhra moved into Durrani's house, the younger Khar began making daily threats over the telephone. "First I will shoot your mother in the knees with a 12-bore gun so she crawls," Khar told Durrani's son Ali, his half-brother. "She's become too used to standing up. No one will be able to catch me." Given the power of the Khar family, that is probably true. In their ancestral village of Kot Addu, Durrani explains in My Feudal Lord, "the Khars were the law." Fakhra's family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Evil That Men Do | 8/20/2001 | See Source »

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