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No single, essential difference separates human beings from other animals -- but that hasn't stopped the phrasemakers from trying to find one. They have described humans as the animals who make tools, or reason, or use fire, or laugh, or any one of a dozen other appealing oversimplifications. Here's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Man Began | 3/14/1994 | See Source »

Time, then, to deliver. A crime bill is struggling through Congress. While Clinton avoided involvement during its drafting, he is now complaining about the delay in its passage. Far worse, he is supporting its most emotionally appealing proposals instead of seeking to shore up the single measure that has been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Political Interest Frying Them Isn't the Answer | 3/14/1994 | See Source »

Both Benoit and Jacques, the two women's "lovers," are, however, willing to risk themselves for the principle of freedom, not for the love of a single woman. This similarity corresponds to a similarity in the personalities of Irene and Sophie. Irene assert during one of her first meetings with...

Author: By Bernie A. Meyler, | Title: Accompanist Sings, 'If Music Be the Fruit of Love, Play On' | 3/10/1994 | See Source »

It is not clear what inspires Peck's musical eclecticism, and how he imagines it to all hold together. Adding a polished studio saxophone wail to a folk guitar song does nothing but bewilder the listener, as does a tune like "Strange Weather," with its hip jazz shimmy that sounds...

Author: By James B. Loeffler, | Title: Moxy by the peck | 3/3/1994 | See Source »

So you can imagine my expectations for this new record. When I first heard it I was pretty disappointed. The songs just didn't seem as strong as on previous records (all of their stuff prior of Slanted is now available on a Drag City CD called Westing, By Musket...

Author: By "fillmore Jive", | Title: Pavement's Artists Make Their Mark | 3/3/1994 | See Source »

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