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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first-year student at the College asked Murray why he has not explicitly answered his critics--pointing out that such is the duty of any responsible scholar. In a wry bit of irony Murray responded to this lucid question with a boldly irrelevant answer. In short, Murray ducked explicit as well as implicit demands to address his critics, preferring instead to repeat the assertions contained in his book...

Author: By Bruce L. Gottlieb, | Title: Ignoring the Bell Curve | 2/17/1995 | See Source »

Inspired by the disproportionately high rate of suicide among gay teens, "Totally F***ed Up" carries a strong political message. Disturbing, explicit moments abound. When Andy meets Ian for the first time, a woman is screaming hysterically in the background. The sense of being caught in a painful, twisted world is inescapable. Or maybe that's just the way life is over in Los Angeles...

Author: By Roland Tan, | Title: F***ED UP | 1/20/1995 | See Source »

Surprisingly enough, none of the actors were paid and only one of the six leads is gay off-screen. Considering the fairly explicit content of the movie, their willingness to take on such roles for no pay is perhaps indication that the "born-again Nazi-Republican dream" is finally coming...

Author: By Roland Tan, | Title: F***ED UP | 1/20/1995 | See Source »

...Northern Europe could offer. Van Gogh went south to Arles; Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky and above all Henri Matisse would reach North Africa. "I have found landscapes in Morocco," Matisse claimed, "exactly as they are described in Delacroix's paintings." Morocco satisfied something in the early modernist quest for explicit, fresh, formal experience. And it was Delacroix who pointed the artists there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: Drinking the Color | 1/9/1995 | See Source »

...office at the service of this issue." For nine days the Vatican delegates, under his direction, lobbied and filibustered; they kept their Latin American bloc in line and struck up alliances with Islamic nations opposed to abortion. In the end, the Pope won. The Cairo conference inserted an explicit statement that "in no case should abortion be promoted as a method of family planning"; in return the Vatican gave partial consent to the document...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: John Paul II : Empire of the Spirit | 12/26/1994 | See Source »

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