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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When Smith entered the restaurant, the letter recounts, he was told to leave Grendel's by the same waiter who verbally attacked Davis. When he tried to explain to the waiter and subsequently to another employee that this was a case of mistaken identity, the employees both insisted that he was not welcome there because of the previous event...

Author: By Georgia N. Alexakis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: GSE Students Accuse Grendel's Den of Racial Discrimination | 3/30/1998 | See Source »

...alleged pattern is meant to buttress Jones' claim that after she refused Clinton's sexual advances at Little Rock's Excelsior Hotel in 1991, her career with the state of Arkansas was roadblocked. But the filing may do even more to help explain the leads independent counsel Kenneth Starr is pursuing as he tries to build a broader obstruction case against Clinton in the matter of Monica Lewinsky. For a scandal-weary public trying to make sense of it all, the Clinton depicted in these documents is a chilling character indeed: not the charming rogue of Primary Colors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton's Crisis: Kiss But Don't Tell | 3/23/1998 | See Source »

Anil K. Soni '98 said he wished the University would at least better explain its unwillingness to change...

Author: By David A. Fahrenthold, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Financial Aid Will Not Change This Semester | 3/20/1998 | See Source »

WILL WINJames Cameron. I'm not going to take space from the other categories trying to explain why. Sure his lavish spending and tyrannical nature might turn off some voters. But, to paraphrase Cole Porter, if not Cameron...

Author: By Nicholas K. Davis, | Title: OSCAR PICKS 1998 | 3/20/1998 | See Source »

While this may be true, Walker's reply doesn't explain how some black artists have managed to avoid or somehow outlive similar controversy, like Robert Colescott and Kerry James Marshall who parody stereotypes in a more literal, straightforward way. Similarly sexual, scatological, or racially-charged, their work seems less threatening (and to my mind less satisfying), because it's far more unambiguous and transparent than Walker's graphic obliquity and elliptical narratives. Walker remarks, "There's lot of information that's not revealed for you. The viewer probably knows most of the story, maybe even more than...

Author: By Scott Rothkopf, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Walker Show Subverts Racial Stereotypes | 3/19/1998 | See Source »

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