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...shocked to react at first, as I tasted blood in my mouth and felt blood trickling down my chin. I heard a couple of sadistic chuckles from the audience, but repressed the urge to leap up, hurl the satanic sofa into the front row and run screaming from the theatre...

Author: By Richard Murphy, | Title: Chiller Theater | 5/13/1987 | See Source »

Prosecutors, Jewish leaders, and a spectrum of Frenchmen react heatedly to that line of defense. They say Verges wants to "banalise" Nazism--reduce it to the commonplace...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: French Trial of Barbie to Begin Today | 5/11/1987 | See Source »

Largely for these reasons, the Reagan Administration was in something of a quandary about how to react. Having originally proposed the zero option in 1981 and hung tough on it through '82 and '83, the Administration felt it could not say no now that Gorbachev was finally saying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Slouching Toward an Arms Agreement | 4/27/1987 | See Source »

Authorities say the officer was investigating a report of armed prowlers in the schoolyard; in the darkness the distinct flash of light from the toy gun made it look as if a real pistol were being fired. "The deputy reacted as he had been trained to react," said City Manager Lauren M. Wasserman. "He had a hundredth of a second to make a decision." Said the boy's father Joseph Falcon, who had been uneasy about the toy guns: "Something has got to be done to warn people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Toys: Deadly Gunplay | 4/20/1987 | See Source »

...tired crowd, half of them kneeling before him in the white brilliant light that he loves. "Mr. President," bellowed a television reporter, "Do you think you can change a vote around? "His voice echoed in the mosaic hallway. The president of the United States, preoccupied and confused, failed to react, then shrugged expressively when the question was repeated...

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, | Title: A Roadblock in the Capitol | 4/9/1987 | See Source »

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