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...when it doesn't. At the moment, people are unsure which is which. A lie may be a defensive response to an unwarranted invasion of privacy. The oddity that Oprah and Phil and Geraldo can attract guests willing to confess anything on TV does not oblige everyone else to bare all when asked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The U.S. Political Campaign: Lies, Lies, Lies | 10/5/1992 | See Source »

...Roger and Julia, the fourth wall is literally the fourth wall of Roger's apartment which his wife Peggy (E. Katherine Kerr) has chosen to leave absolutely bare. Disturbed by the blankness of the wall, Roger and Julia declare that they feel like they are being watched, as if they were in a play...

Author: By Howie Axelrod, | Title: All the World's a Stage | 10/1/1992 | See Source »

...will purchase its 50,000 hectares (125,000 acres) on Afognak Island, a mountainous place nearly the size of Maui, brimming with salmon, elk, Kodiak bears and bald eagles. Though part of the island belongs to the Kodiak Refuge, the AJV lands are being logged and could be stripped bare within a decade. Asserts AJV chairman Howard Valley: "By selling it back, at least we will be able to preserve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alaska's Billion-Dollar Quandary | 9/28/1992 | See Source »

...tree. From then on it will appear whenever he is at full pitch: in The Open Window, 1905, as he is creating the speckled, radically colored world of Fauvism at Collioure in the south of France; in the great "decorative" paintings of 1908-12 like Conversation; in the astoundingly bare and mysterious French Window at Collioure, 1914; and so on to the palm tree that, like a firework in the garden, fills the window of Interior with an Egyptian Curtain, 1948, its explosive light seeming to cast an inky black shadow under the bowl of fruit. The room is culture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Matisse The Color of Genius | 9/28/1992 | See Source »

...minutes more than 2,000 people are seated on the ground while others stream in: nomad women wrapped in black shawls, grandmothers in tattered sackcloth, lone children naked but for a makeshift shirt. At one point the crowd seethes forward. Guards, screaming, strike the women on their bare backs. Discipline, of a sort, is restored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa: A Day in the Death of Somalia | 9/21/1992 | See Source »

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