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It can be easier to end an armed standoff than a delusion. Last week Emmett Clark, 68, was in court to hear a new set of indictments against him and 13 of the 24 self-styled Freemen of Jordan, Montana. Clark, a leader of the group, listened carefully to the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SECOND ACTS | 12/30/1996 | See Source »

8 Polaroid campaign This year's print ads whimsically position the camera as not just a quick processor but also a great shatterer of delusion. In one of the ads, two parents speculate about their daughter's new college boyfriend. Surely, he must be respectable. The Polaroid-provided reality? He...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BEST ADVERTISING OF 1996 | 12/23/1996 | See Source »

2 The Beckett Festival. For Samuel Beckett, life was a painful, poignant marking of time between the crib and the crypt. But no event this year had more artistic vitality than the New York City staging by Dublin's Gate Theatre of 19 Beckett works--from the 40-second Breath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BEST THEATER OF 1996 | 12/23/1996 | See Source »

No matter how intensely the bitterness for civilization's trespass conflicted with the sweetness of Kozelek's and Red House Painters' presence on Sunday night, nothing plagued the performance more than the choice of venue. With its blatant hybridization of Roman Mythology and medieval macabre, complete with apsidal carvings on...

Author: By Scott W. Slavin, | Title: The Red House Painters Bring Moody Absolution to Mama Kin | 12/6/1996 | See Source »

For Chin, naming was vitally important. Just as blacks had appropriated formerly derogatory terms--from "Negro" to "black" itself--as consciously chosen emblems of racial pride and identity, Chin tried to turn the racist label of "Chinaman" into one Chinese-Americans could claim as their own. Instead, hyphenation carried the...

Author: By Timothy P. Yu, | Title: Hyphenation Begets Tokenism | 5/15/1996 | See Source »

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