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...ceremonial white, gold, red or black robes. Most of the dead were arranged in a circle with their faces looking up at a portrait of a Christlike figure resembling Jouret. While some appeared to wear serene smiles, nearly all had suffered bullet wounds in the head. Ten had plastic bags tied over their heads. Several had their hands bound. In a final note of morbid festivity, the floor was scattered with empty champagne bottles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In the Reign of Fire | 10/17/1994 | See Source »

...them badly burned, including the remains of at least five children. Earlier in the day two men identifying themselves as Jouret and Di Mambro had got a local locksmith to admit them to the house. Both fires had been set off by the same elaborate system, in which plastic bags of gasoline and containers of propane gas were linked by electrical wires to a telephone. Its ringing could provide the electrical charge to ignite a fireball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In the Reign of Fire | 10/17/1994 | See Source »

...Street. Pretend to try on a hat with garish flowers while admiring yourself in their grime-streaked mirrors. "Aw, don't I look cute?" When they're not looking, pluck off all of the flowers and stick them in your backpack. Mom'll love a surprise packet of cheap plastic flowers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOIST A STEIN AND PARTY | 10/8/1994 | See Source »

They mask and they are loud, never sentimental and wimpy. They command their characters and the stage with farcial abandon. Yenta Pesha (Sokol) throws giant plastic pickles at her husband, Gronam Ox (Levin), whenever be does something stupid. She wags her tongue, spits and gags attempting some of the more delicate words of the Yiddish language, and her flexible face will always tell you what she's (not) thinking even if her words do not. In other words, she knows how to put on a show; it has little to do with drama, at least the type proffered...

Author: By Thomas Madsen, | Title: Tuneful Shlemiel Quite a Schlep | 10/6/1994 | See Source »

Stick, ball, and astroturf meet instantaneously. Pieces of green plastic are ripped up, and from the current camera angle, it's impossible to tell what happened...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: Wouldn't It Be Cool... | 10/1/1994 | See Source »

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