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Otherwise, the "Aperto" is apocalyptic trivia, devoid of aesthetic impulse. Everything is on much the same dull, hectoring, narcissistic and politically simpleminded level; all complexity of artistic response has been ironed down into puerile rhetoric, one-liners that have no further resonance once you've got their meager point. Some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Shambles In Venice | 6/28/1993 | See Source »

O.K., so what movies are bad for kids? "By day, children use their imagination to create things," says David Kirschner, producer of both the G- rated Once Upon a Forest and the R-rated killer-doll Child's Play series. "Then by night they have very dark visions about what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood's Summer: Just Kidding | 6/28/1993 | See Source »

By age 12, children were usually split off from their mothers (fathers never lived with the families). Brothers and sisters were separated to live with other same-sex companions. They ate fruits and vegetables, but rarely warm food. Chocolate was prohibited, and ice cream, which Koresh enjoyed regularly, was granted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Children of A Lesser God | 5/17/1993 | See Source »

Education consisted of home schooling and hours-long twice-daily biblical lessons taught by a rambling Koresh. Sometimes he jumped from the chapel stage to paddle young ones who were crying or being disruptive. "You never knew what he was going to be," says Kiri Jewell, 12, who was taken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Children of A Lesser God | 5/17/1993 | See Source »

In Earth and Sun and Moon the wages of justice remain the same, but the lyrics are sharper, the music deeper. The band, which has been influenced by the Aboriginal cultures of the Australian outback, has forged a passionate yet never preachy style that expresses its activist instincts in elemental...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Riffs for The Apocalypse | 5/10/1993 | See Source »

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