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...Linklater's project of filming a bunch of nothing much and presenting it as an object for hedonistic consumption: having been filmed it ceases to be nothing much. Thus his 1990 low-budget cult film "Slacker," which shows some aimless people in Austin doing whatever, has become an emblem of "Generation X," and Linklater its ingenuously reluctant spokesperson. How ironic, since the message of his movie and of Douglas Coupland's book was that there's not that much to say, or for that matter to do or to think. And how even more ironic that if they really believed...

Author: By Erica L. Werner, | Title: School Daze | 10/7/1993 | See Source »

...final selection of 64 pictures, one-third of them in black and white, represents the work of 36 photographers from 12 countries, including many whose pictures have appeared in our pages. Chosen as the emblem of the exhibit is a photo of a woman grieving at the funeral of her husband, a Croatian policeman killed in an ambush by Serbs of the Yugoslav National Army forces. It was taken by TIME's Christopher Morris, who has covered the war since its start and has provided some of its most powerful images. After the show closes in New York City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From the Publisher | 10/4/1993 | See Source »

...showdown in the U.S. Senate was just the most dramatic incident in a war against symbols that continues to haunt the South. The Confederate battle flag flew atop Alabama's capitol until a few months ago. Blacks in Mississippi are suing to remove the same emblem from their state flag. Georgia Governor Zell Miller's proposal to "purge the dark side of the Confederacy" -- again the battle emblem -- from that state flag failed earlier this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nixing Dixie | 8/2/1993 | See Source »

...think we have to look back in American history to understand the difference in appeal and in style between high and low TV, right back to that emblem of American civilization itself; Coney Island...

Author: By Amanda C. Pustilnik, | Title: News Splits Along Cultural Lines | 7/20/1993 | See Source »

...trivial event resonated because it served as an emblem of Clinton's troubles: the seesawing on Bosnia, the collapse of the stimulus plan and Democratic attacks on his tax increases. In a TIME/CNN poll, only 33% of those surveyed think the President has done a good job of keeping his campaign promises, down from 44% in mid-February. Just 27% think he has made a good effort toward reducing the budget deficit, a plunge from 48%. He gets good marks for leadership from 50%, but that is down from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shear Dismay | 5/31/1993 | See Source »

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