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...tangled with white cops, yet didn't get killed for it by the end of the movie. Blaxploitation's heroes, men and women, had attitude and style and were true to the experience of black moviegoers. Roundtree's John Shaft, as Isaac Hayes sang, was "the black private dick that's a sex machine to all the chicks"--but couldn't hail a cab in Manhattan. "We knew him," Samuel L. Jackson remembers. "We felt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blaxploitation's Mass Appeal | 8/12/2002 | See Source »

...ought to know. The man was House minority leader Dick Gephardt. But what Gephardt didn't explain was why Congress--for the seventh year in a row--has failed to do anything about this crisis. At a time of surging federal deficits, one reason is the price--$800 billion or more over 10 years to provide something close to coverage for all seniors. Conservatives don't want the largest expansion of entitlements since the launch of Medicare to happen on their watch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Placebo Effect | 8/12/2002 | See Source »

...remember another Lewis manifestation, on Dick Clark's "Bandstand." It was Thanksgiving Day 1957 and, as Tosches notes, the other guests were the teen duo Tom and Jerry, later Simon and Garfunkel. For the kids in Philadelphia, Pa., Lewis sang his follow-up hit, "Great Balls of Fire." He tore through the number and, toward the end, shook his long, slicked-back blond hair until it fell forward, like a toupee attached at the brow line, virtually covering his face. He was suddenly a peroxided version of the Addams Family's Cousin Itt, and for a moment I could feel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Golden Sun | 8/10/2002 | See Source »

...inspections - albeit on his own terms, which so far remain unacceptable to the U.N. But the Iraqi leader knows he can always adjust his position later to comply with the international community's demands, simultaneously taking the wind out of Washington's sails. That may be why Vice President Dick Cheney hastened to warn Thursday that even a resumption of U.N. weapons inspections may not be enough to solve the big problem: Iraq's purported weapons of mass destruction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Saddam Plans to Thwart Bush | 8/9/2002 | See Source »

...sooner or later, they say it's better to get it over with sooner. This camp is led in public by Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld and his fiercely gung ho deputy Paul Wolfowitz. But most longtime Bush hands agree that its vital spiritual leader is the backroom Vice President Dick Cheney, who gives this camp constant access to Bush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battling Over Iraq | 8/6/2002 | See Source »

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