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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Iron Curtain made European integration a relatively simple matter, at least in concept: the rich democracies of the West were eligible for / membership in this new club, the European Community; the poor dictatorships to the east were not. But now the Community's neighbors -- newly liberated, thoroughly European and desperately needy -- will request, and deserve, some kind of special association...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America Abroad | 9/9/1991 | See Source »

...nation again, a people united. The Berlin Wall, once the ugliest scar on a wounded country, has been knocked down, its pieces carted off to a huge depot for resale as art or to be crushed for use as roadway ballast. The border fences marking the Iron Curtain that for so long divided Europe have been dismantled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Germany Unity's Shadows | 7/8/1991 | See Source »

...stuporous young black man, three inner-city toughs storm into the car. They shout at the black rider, then drag him to the floor and stomp on his face. The other passengers cringe, until the pummeling abruptly ceases and all four men rise smiling, as if for a curtain call. "Ladies and gentlemen!" one of the thugs intones with cultured geniality. "You have just witnessed another performance of Ghetto Theater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Boyz Of New Black City | 6/17/1991 | See Source »

Shedroff understands that the curtain will soon close on his long juggling act, the four years he has spent keeping his fanciful dream and his academic pursuits up in the air. Graduation will demand from him a choice. Behind door A may lie fame, success and an even older sax, or only disappointment. Door B hides fewer surprises: a career in the law with an emphasis, he predicts, on public service...

Author: By Adam L. Berger, | Title: The Law, Race Relations, and All That Jazz | 6/6/1991 | See Source »

...attending to me and offering me sex if I so wish. But in the end, I would rather be alone and masturbate. Until God comes, of course, and frightens me. (Laughs) Then all of a sudden Like a Prayer begins, and you hear the voice of God, and the curtain opens. Figures clothed in black, like priests and nuns, appear onstage and the cross descends. It's like here comes the Catholic Church saying 'Sex goes here, and spirituality goes there.' And I say -- but I say, NO, THEY GO TOGETHER! I am supposed to pray, right? But my praying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Madonna In Bloom: MADONNA | 5/20/1991 | See Source »

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