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...pristine condition, apparently undisturbed for up to 20,000 years, as was other evidence of the ancient artists' presence: flint knives, mounds of clay used for making paint, and charred fire pits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WINDOW ON THE STONE AGE | 1/30/1995 | See Source »

What about giving me your tired, your poor? "The inscription at the base of the Statue of Liberty was written before welfare," says Florida Representative Clay Shaw, incoming chairman of the House Ways and Means subcommittee on human resources and the man who will have a great deal of say over welfare reform. "People came to this country to work. Now the question becomes, Are these handouts a magnet that is bringing people into this country? To some degree, they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Down on the Downtrodden | 12/19/1994 | See Source »

...even before that, we believe in them. Their energy is a curious mixture of childlike hyperactivity and a more adult sexual tension. They may begin a game of chasing each other through the forest and end lying in the grass, embracing each other in their knickers. Similarly, their beloved clay figurines, characters in Juliet's novel-in-progress about a royal family, have love affairs and illegitimate children...

Author: By Natasha Wimmer, | Title: Heavenly Surprises in Murdering Mom | 12/8/1994 | See Source »

...frightfully romantic too, and romantically frightening. It ascends and plummets with the girls' mercurial moods. As they fall into a conspiracy of affection, the film lures the viewer into the girls' fantasy world, as elaborate as that created by the Bronte sisters: a kingdom called Borovnia, where the clay statues they have molded come to life as blue- blooded versions of their favorite "saints" (Mario Lanza and James Mason) and demons (Orson Welles, "the most hideous man alive"). But demons can also be sexy. When a fellow makes clumsy love to Pauline, she pays him no heed and imagines herself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: A Heavenly Trip Toward Hell | 11/21/1994 | See Source »

...seemed as if some of the adults had an axe to grind," said Julia M. Clay of Kalamazoo...

Author: By Zoe Argento and Wilson J. Liao, S | Title: Analyzing the Effects of the Human Genome Project | 11/15/1994 | See Source »

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