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...almost miraculous rescues. William Cardwell was trapped on an upper deck when he saw a man carrying a baby to safety. "I saw one man climbing up seats with a small baby in his teeth," he recounted. "It was unbelievable." Cardwell had been trying to break through a window to escape when the man with the baby came up along with two other children. "It was pitch dark and freezing cold," he said. "We took turns rubbing the baby to keep it warm." Finally a helicopter dropped them a line, pulled up the man and child and took them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Tragic End for Day Trippers | 3/16/1987 | See Source »

Music bellowed and posters screamed..... 'Maria Pulls It Off! 'The Sickening Galactic Evil of Gargoyle the Globekiller--your guts will run and your flesh will crawl!... On monitors in the window, men boxed and played cricket, barbarians slaughtered hordes of demon invaders, outer space warriors zapped each other in fountains of gore, a caveman swung across what looked like a missile silo towards a control room in which a mad masked axeman made ready to hack up a screaming pubescent girl, and women wanked ferociously in a variety of imaginative positions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BRAIN LINT: | 3/11/1987 | See Source »

...student in America. The ageless child of media fame who made scores of underground films in which often nothing happened (Empire offered eight hours of staring at the Empire State Building) and who published his own magazine, Interview. Andy, the living transparency, with his face pressed to the shop window of the American dream and his head full of schemes to titillate an aging, youth-obsessed American culture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A Caterer of Repetition and Glut: Andy Warhol: 1928-1987 | 3/9/1987 | See Source »

...statuesque white-tailed buck grazes along a roadside in rural Virginia. Passing hunters slow their cars, aim their high-powered rifles out the window and fire -- then fire again when the deer neither falls nor flees. Three police cruisers suddenly surround the cars, and the hapless hunters discover they are the targets of a sting dubbed Bambiscam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poachers: Rising to the Bait | 3/9/1987 | See Source »

Whether on ordinary regime or strict regime, Begun lived in a cell measuring about 10 ft. long and 5 ft. wide. It contained two narrow wooden cots and an open toilet. At one end was a small window that let in narrow strips of light. "It had metal jalousies to keep out the sun and block the view to the prison yard," Begun said. At the other end was an iron door fitted with multiple locks and a closed rectangular slot called a kormushka, or feeding door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union A Day in the Depths of the Gulag | 3/9/1987 | See Source »

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