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...Bois co-founded the National Association forthe Advancement of Colored People, and taught atWilberforce University, the University ofPennsylvania and Atlanta University. The U.S.government forced him to flee to Ghana at the ageof 93 because of his left-wing political views...

Author: By Elizabeth M. Angell, | Title: Du Bois Legacy Celebrated | 10/18/1993 | See Source »

...Clarence hopes to travel abroad, it is only because he "always wanted to see what TV in other countries looked like"; but this is true romance. The two must marry, run into some mortal trouble (Gary Oldman as a drug dealer, Christopher Walken as a Mafia don) and flee -- with the surprise package of a suitcase full of cocaine -- to Los Angeles. Their moral code is hardly more righteous than that of their pursuers, but they're on their way, down a white-brick road toward the end of the rainbow. You kind of know Elvis will be there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Goons Go Gun Crazy | 9/13/1993 | See Source »

...eldest son Mark dragged two satchels filled with bills in small denominations to the entrance of a park in upper Manhattan, where he handed them to Fermin. But the kidnapper didn't keep his end of the bargain to release Weinstein within three hours. Fearing that the abductors might flee the country and abandon their victim to die, police moved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Manhattan Hellhole | 8/30/1993 | See Source »

Washington used to be Anita Hill's town too--at least until a combination of gross incompetence, naivete and vindictiveness caused her to flee and plot revenge against a mentor who had callously discarded...

Author: By Lorraine Lezama, | Title: Women in Washington Aren't Always Living the Easy Life | 8/13/1993 | See Source »

...bureaucrat. But Coneheads is not Saturday Night satire. It is an updated Saturday Evening Post cover; it sees suburbia as a goofy Utopia. In E.T. and Edward Scissorhands (this movie's most obvious parental units), the alien beings stood in metaphorically for blacks and other minorities and had to flee home from benighted prejudice. Here, though, law-abiding citizens can get along no matter what planet they come from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Grelbon Out Of Pluvarb | 8/2/1993 | See Source »

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