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Basing their beliefs largely on a speculative scientific paper published in 1983 by Dr. Frank Barr, a San Francisco physician, the melanists assert that blacks -- who indeed have more of the skin pigment than other races -- possess superior and supernatural traits that can be ascribed to the magical qualities of neuromelanin, a little-studied substance in the brain. Yet while neuromelanin is markedly different from the skin pigment, the melanists often fail to differentiate between the two and ignore the fact that all humans have similar amounts of neuromelanin. According to the melanists, neuromelanin can convert light and magnetic fields...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Teaching Reverse Racism | 4/4/1994 | See Source »

...attempt to discipline Ryan could raiselarger questions of law and Justice Departmentpolicy. Reno's predecessor as attorney general,William J. Barr, argued that government lawyersshould not be subject to discipline by state bars...

Author: By Joe Mathews, | Title: Federal Discipline Unlikely for Ryan | 12/1/1993 | See Source »

...that preceded them in the 1930s. They were almost immediately bought, half by the Phillips Collection and half by the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and were in fact the first paintings by a black artist to enter MOMA's collection. It seemed to both Alfred Barr of MOMA and Duncan Phillips that Lawrence's series represented a unique conjunction of black experience, history painting and a modernist idiom. They were right. From Benjamin West to Robert Rauschenberg, American art is sown with attempts, varying between utter bathos and success, to image forth the American story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stanzas From a Black Epic | 11/22/1993 | See Source »

EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENTS: Donald J. Barr, Donald M. Elliman Jr., Robert L. Miller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Masthead | 10/4/1993 | See Source »

EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENTS: Donald J. Barr, Donald M. Elliman Jr., Robert L. Miller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Masthead | 9/27/1993 | See Source »

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