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More than a century before "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (1852) shook up American sentiments, an astonishing array of poets on both sides of the Atlantic were writing about the horrors of slavery. "The Wretches they to Christian climes bring o'er, / To serve worse heathens than they did before," wrote Daniel Defoe of trans-Atlantic slavetraders in 1702. In 1695 "Oroonoko", a popular London play, depicted plantation life and a bloody slave insurrection with striking sympathy: "If you saw the bloody Cruelties, / They execute on every slight offence . . . / Your heart wou'd bleed for 'em." In 1703 the Boston Puritan...
...defiance ("You'll see my album. Lady Tiger don't stop") to despair ("You ain't going nowhere in Detroit. Nowhere") to dignified resolve for her son's sake ("We're never going to quit, are we, angel?"). It was a haunting slice of life, more authentic than any ER subplot...
...first stop was Warner Bros. Studios, where we took a tour of the lot, stopping to check out the Harry Potter paraphernalia in the Warner Bros. Museum, traipse through the sets of “Gilmore Girls” and “ER,” and even spot a speeding Mekhi Pfeiffer zooming by on a golf cart...
...mini is back, mini-er than ever. While it's unclear whether the women we know will take to them with vigor, the style is perfect for sashaying up a heavily photographed red carpet. And since nothing sells clothes like a celebrity, TIME asked some top designers which hot star bods they dreamed would inhabit their creations. Here is the ultimate minidress-model wish list: --By Desa Philadelphia
...Shanghai scores the first 10 points and leads Hong Kong 44-29 after one quarter. By this time gentle Dan McClintock has slammed home three dunks and has dared to yelp in protest to a referee. His wife is glowing with pride. When Dan-ni-er sits down in the second quarter with 25 points (and Byrne?who will be cut in a couple of weeks and replaced by an American guard?comes in to score 20 points), he almost seems to smile. But this would be vanity...