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...encourage. He is part and parcel of the beatnik, man-loving-man, pinko plague that has taken to our streets and children. My anger is without bound, even in this age of limits and delimitations. These limits and delimitations are all that separates man from beast, citizen from barbarian, and good from evil. I am fortunate that in this new century we are able to escape the scourges of moral blackness in the American men of past war torn decades...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters to the Editor | 4/3/2001 | See Source »

...Calendar bickering aside, this has been a truly remarkable millennium. Think of what has occurred: the birth of Christ, conversion of Constantine, the fall of the Western Empire, the barbarian invasions, the rise of Islam, the coronation of Charlemagne, the creation of the Holy Roman Empire. We have seen the spread of new types of government, such as arbitrary lordship, and new ideas, such as religious intolerance, across Europe; will these trends continue into the future? The tenth century was called by Henricus Luce "The Ottonian Century" for the dominance of the Holy Roman Empire, but will the Empire maintain...

Author: By Stephen E. Sachs, | Title: Last Column of the Millennium | 12/19/2000 | See Source »

...reason to deprive them of it. Particularly strong was the appetite for historical works in which stern Antiquity framed the goddess Pornography. By far the hottest example of the genre here is a fabulous piece of kitsch by Paul Jamin, Brennus and his Loot, 1893, showing a barbarian Gallic chieftain gloating over his spoils from the sack of Rome. They include five naked, rosy-nippled girls, writhing on the floor in postures of submission and despair; all-conquering Brennus surveys them with the Bertie Wooster grin of a boulevardier entering a whorehouse. This is archaeology with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Stuff Modernism Overthrew | 6/5/2000 | See Source »

Blair Underwood, (6) who played a modern dreadlocked Jesus in 1992's The Second Coming, which was narrated by James Earl Jones (O.K., we're cheating), who was in Conan the Barbarian with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Six Degrees of Jesus | 4/24/2000 | See Source »

...couple friends and I were standing on the corner in front of Tommy's at about three in the morning. We decided if we were going to stand on the street corner at three in the morning, we better become a blues band. We formed this band called the Barbarian Blues Band. Soon we began writing original material-which was coming out more as funky New-Wave type stuff-and that band became The Decoders...

Author: By Jon Natchez, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Fuss about Russ | 4/14/2000 | See Source »

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