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...stranger. But each time I teach GWENDOLYN BROOKS, each time I revisit her poems, her words, they climb up on my knees and sit in tight contentment. They speak to me of form and color, patterns and dawns. They talk of myths; they tell me where the flesh lives; where a troop of young heroes and sheroes lean back in chairs, "beautiful. Impudent. Ready for life." Where the young "live not for battles won. Live not for the-end-of-the-song. Live in the along." I never have to ask where are the flowers? Sun? Where are the mothers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eulogy: GWENDOLYN BROOKS | 12/18/2000 | See Source »

...cast having a high time playing preening villains and wily good guys. Even Ryan, with too much attitude and nonstop nutating, finally gets into the film's burly spirit. All this is enough to stoke the action engine, but the movie has a fuller agenda--to give its characters flesh and a meaningful melancholy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Better Than Tabloid Tattle | 12/11/2000 | See Source »

...than 600 African American-owned websites. Dwayne Walker, 39, a veteran of Microsoft who runs Seattle-based ShopNow.com recalls the visible discomfort of white venture capitalists in 1995, when he was seeking backers for his site, which links 100,000 merchants with consumers. When people met him in the flesh, Walker says, "there was always the initial, 'Oh, he's a black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Multimillion-Dollar Dash | 12/4/2000 | See Source »

...omen department, even a late-running football game couldn't save Gore's segment from running, at 7:30, opposite his own lawyer's closing arguments. It was that kind of day in Leon County, as Gore v. clock took a few pounds of flesh out of Bush's witnesses but took forever getting them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bush and Company Turn Up the Heat | 12/3/2000 | See Source »

...going to be very hard for the Supreme Court to give Al Gore anything more than a flesh wound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Verdict Would Stop Al Gore? | 12/1/2000 | See Source »

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