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...attorney Parker is searching and painfully revealing. Nelson seeks common cause with all black women, whom she sees as suffering from a collective case of "invisibility and erasure"; Parker strives to delineate individuals, appreciating the "thousands of moments that [make] us fundamentally different from each other." Nelson remonstrates, with fist-in-the-air rhetoric leavened by wry humor; Parker demonstrates, depicting each moment with searing clarity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: FINALLY HAVING THEIR SAY | 9/1/1997 | See Source »

...recall sneering under my breath and shaking my fist at the screen, squelching the urge to spit in disgust. The American people should be so lucky that they worry about universal access to something called the Internet. This was coming from an administration that had failed to feed its poor or house its veterans. The prospect of the Web in West Virginia and the Usenet in Utah seemed like the classic tactic of bread and circus, only without enough bread to go around...

Author: By Gabriel B. Eber, | Title: The Internet: Democracy Potentate | 6/4/1997 | See Source »

...again a few minutes later, sliding a deck out of his jeans pocket. "Pick a card," he says, quickly persuading the actor not only to count out 10 other cards but to sit on them as well. When the chosen card somehow "jumps" to his stack, Pacino pounds his fist on the table. "That is a beautiful thing!" he exults. Blaine leaves the restaurant triumphant: "That was a real movie-star reaction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: THE WIZARD OF GRUNGE | 5/19/1997 | See Source »

...Minutemen came out of the gates firing as senior attackman Brendan Glass scored two of his four goals in the fist five minutes of play...

Author: By Joseph K. Goodwin, | Title: Men's Lacrosse Pummeled by No. 11 Massachusetts, 12-6 | 4/17/1997 | See Source »

...Madrid this Spring Break, ERIC J. BOLESH '00 showed off some of his talent by lighting a candle with his toes in the middle of a crowded Irish Bar. Not to be outdone, RYAN A. HACKNEY '97 one-upped Bolesh by proving that he could fit his entire fist in his mouth. Bolesh was impressed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TIDBITS | 4/12/1997 | See Source »

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