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Meanwhile, former California Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr.'s delegates continued to drown out speakers and wave signs, clamoring for a speech from their hero. Their wish was granted Wednesday, when Brown spoke on behalf of his own nomination...

Author: By Brian D. Ellison, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Speeches Fill a Week-Long Party | 7/17/1992 | See Source »

...another barber chair, Antoine (Jean Rochefort) meets Mathilde (Anna Galiena), "the woman with whom I knew I'd spend my life." Mathilde knows it too; in his Basset eyes she sees erotic ingenuity and unconditional love. Both are avid for the moment the shop door closes "so we can drown in the ocean of peace we love so much." French director Patrice Leconte, whose fine Monsieur Hire also dealt with romantic obsession, has devised a chamber fable about a man's infantile charm and a woman's nurturing sexuality. The movie is like the couple's love: pure, brief, passionate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Short Takes: Jun. 29, 1992 | 6/29/1992 | See Source »

...arts and the humanities, broadly reconceived, is the most important cultural project upon which we can embark." Gates simply wants equal access to the institutions which perpetuate human culture. there's no call for separatism in his writing. He doesn't give an inch to Jeffriesism, which can only "drown out critical inquiry...

Author: By John A. Cloud, | Title: Gates Makes a Strong Defense of Multiculturalism and Afro-American Studies in Latest Collection of Essays | 5/1/1992 | See Source »

Hillary Clinton will be targeted too. "Barbara Bush plays the piano so she doesn't drown out George's violin," says Richard Nixon. "Hillary pounds the piano so hard that Bill can't be heard. You want a wife who's intelligent, but not too intelligent." For Roger Ailes, who directed the Bush media effort four years ago, the logic is simple: "You couple them and go for a score on family values. You say that Bill and Hillary believe that children should have the right to sue their parents. I don't know if Bill believes that, but Hillary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Political Interest It's Not Going to Be Pretty | 4/20/1992 | See Source »

...Euro Disney offers few sops to European traditions. Wine may be as mother's milk to the French, but they will find only "mocktails" at the restaurants inside the park; they must get their hand stamped at the turnstile, walk a few yards to the nearest hotel bar and drown their rancor there. The Pinocchio and Star Tours rides, among others, provide French dialogue, but visitors who have no English will miss the verbal nuances that lend the park its impish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Voila! Disney Invades Europe. Will the French Resist? | 4/20/1992 | See Source »

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