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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There was particular bitterness among Union's African Americans, many of whom had joined in the search for the boys. "This whole incident with her labeling a black man as the criminal sends a message of the black male as savage and barbarian," said McElroy Hughes, a retired minister and local president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. But "you have to give Sheriff Wells credit for the discreet and appropriate way he handled this," said the Rev. A.L. Brackett, pastor of the all-black, 400-member St. Paul Baptist Church in downtown Union. "He didn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death and Deceit | 11/14/1994 | See Source »

...Edel (Last Exit to Brooklyn) took Confessions of a Sorority Girl; William Friedkin (The Exorcist) got Jailbreakers; Jonathan Kaplan (The Accused) chose Reform School Girl; Mary Lambert (Pet Sematary) took Dragstrip Girl; John McNaughton (Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer) opted for Girls in Prison; John Milius (Conan the Barbarian) chose Motorcycle Gang. The only youngster, 25-year-old Robert Rodriguez (El Mariachi), got Roadracers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: I Was a Teenage Teenager | 8/15/1994 | See Source »

...Universal machines. Among his admirers: Jarmaine Maggit, 23, who is serving 14 months for battery. When Maggit arrived last May, he could bench only 135 lbs. Now he's up to 325 lbs., earning a spot on a wall chart listing members of the 300-lb. club of Barbarian Bench Beasts. Showing off his 16-in. biceps, Maggit says, "I feel really powerful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Building A Better Thug? | 4/11/1994 | See Source »

Wednesday: In an interview with a Czech newspaper, Zhirinovsky warned that Czechs "will be forced to ... clean the shoes of German officers" ... Thursday: Visiting St. Petersburg, he claimed to have rejected a $1 billion bribe from an Asian country to help it "get some islands." He also vowed that "barbarian peoples" in southern Russia would have their villages destroyed by napalm ... Sunday: He planned to take part in a vigorous 40-km (25-mile) cross-country skiing competition in Moscow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: Vladimir Zhirinovsky Beat | 2/21/1994 | See Source »

...charge that "all men are rapists" is a slander and an outrage. It is also not true -- all men are not even potential rapists. All- men-are-rapists is a moral stupidity as well, since it annuls the distinction between a decent man, who does not rape, and a barbarian, who does. If there is no difference between the two men, then there is no meaning | to civilization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Men Are They Really That Bad? | 2/14/1994 | See Source »

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