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...Henchman (or -woman): Oddjob, Jaws, Rosa Klebb--this is a job for grotesques. Gottfried John as a rogue Russian general looks weird all right, but he has no unique killing skills--just a sneer and a routinely itchy trigger finger. Richard Kiel, you are missed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: SHAKY, NOT STIRRING | 11/27/1995 | See Source »

...into the dna of the cells they infect. Thus once it takes effect, a retrovirus infection--unlike those of viruses that cause measles, smallpox and any number of other diseases--is permanent. While some retroviruses are benign, others can strike without warning. Some remain hidden for years, only to trigger disease later in life when the immune system starts to flag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AN AIDS MYSTERY SOLVED | 11/20/1995 | See Source »

Kurz fails to elucidate her position on how all these reforms would be carried out. Instead she repeatedly asks for a reexamination of the facts. She leads us to expect a detailed program of reform instead of vague catch phrases which trigger the public's progressive nerve. Despite this lack of clarity, Kurz answers ambitious questions in her search for a comprehensive analysis of sociological facts in divorced mothers' lives...

Author: By Sarah G. Vincent, | Title: Kurz's 'For Richer, For Poorer' Confronts Inequalities of Divorce | 11/9/1995 | See Source »

Sharply raising tariffs might, in the short run, protect some jobs in industries facing import competition. But even if these tariffs didn't trigger a full-scale trade war, they would probably inspire counter-tariffs that would cost American jobs in export industries. To point this out, says Buchanan, is to counsel "fear and timidity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INCOME INEQUALITY: WHO'S REALLY TO BLAME? | 11/6/1995 | See Source »

...year, the peacekeeping sentinel sat on his hands as a volcanic outbreak of bloodshed in Rwanda engulfed half a million people. What appears now to be a prospect for peace in Bosnia has not afforded any graceful exit for the U.N.: only after the Western governments took over the trigger and American diplomacy entered the breach did a settlement begin to take shape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE U.N. AT 50: WHO NEEDS IT? | 10/30/1995 | See Source »

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