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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...organization engaged in morally questionable work in order to get closer to nature -- his own and Mother's. Once settled in the wilderness, he proves to be a sensitive and caring ecologist, tenderly nursing the land and its creatures. When, eventually, he encounters members of a culture that is alien to him, he is open to their ways, making no effort to impose his on them. Quite the opposite; he becomes an earnest convert to their life-style. When he finds a wife, he is exemplary in his gentle attentiveness and supportiveness as she struggles to find and assert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Riding To Redemption Ridge | 11/12/1990 | See Source »

Political succession by pedigree, however, by no means precludes women from brilliantly exercising power. For most of history, it was the only path by which women could come to rule. The pattern is not alien to the West, where potentates of genius included daughters of kings, such as Elizabeth I of England; their widows, such as Catherine the Great of Russia; and their mothers, such as Eleanor of Aquitaine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All in The Family | 11/8/1990 | See Source »

...fully integrated into mainstream American life. They can be found in locales ranging from Chicago and San Francisco to the rural enclaves of Northampton, Mass., and Brattleboro, Vt. In Finding the Lesbians, author Janelle Lavelle claims she and her friends have "managed to find other dykes in such alien places as: a Liberty Bible College rally (the campus Jerry Falwell calls home); a Jesse Helms-owned radio station; a Garden Club meeting . . . and working in the ladies' wear section of a K-mart store...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Couples: The Lesbians Next Door | 11/8/1990 | See Source »

Like a deaf child born into a hearing family, I found myself born with a radical difference that suddenly made me alien to my family and to society. Exploring Katz's history of American same-sex relations since 1607 opened up a vast terrain on the horizons of history and culture...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bringing "Out" In | 10/25/1990 | See Source »

...time off? Just weeks after winning the cold war, we face a new war in the gulf. Like Americans going off to Korea just five years after V-J day, we feel uneasy, disappointed. The more disturbed among us feel betrayed. They need to conjure up some conspiracy, some alien force (Jews, imagines the fevered Pat Buchanan) dragging us again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Can America Stand Alone? | 10/22/1990 | See Source »

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