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...some unaired black soap opera, so predictable are the plot contrivances--adultery, pregnancy, illness, missing money--and so cartoonishly are the characters drawn. Mother Joe (Irma P. Hall) is warm, loving, doomed. One daughter, Maxine (Vivica A. Fox), is heart-smart and, since she's a mother, a font of family wisdom. Another, Teri (Vanessa L. Williams), a successful lawyer who has subsidized most of the family's extravagances, is, of course, the villain of the piece. Poor Williams: her pretty mouth is forever prissed in disapproval at her more sympathetic sibs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: GETTING DOWN TO FAMILY MATTERS | 10/13/1997 | See Source »

...addition, I should add that this memorable and very helpful flyer was written in all caps, in a bold and enlarged font and included bulleted suggestions to further facilitate our comprehension of the extremely intricate and innovative recommendations provided by this office. This lovely flyer was posted, I assume, all over the campus houses so that all students could enjoy and be proud of the University's rapid response to increasing crime in this urban area...

Author: By Nancy RAINE Reyes, | Title: Those Annoying, Useless Safety Tips | 11/2/1996 | See Source »

...would just like to thank the Dean of Students' Office for pointing out the obvious to people who don't get it. And the information looked so nice in that enlarged and bold font! Who is your graphic designer? I suppose the flyer which highlights all of the increases in patrol cars and university police will be up in my house next week...

Author: By Nancy RAINE Reyes, | Title: Those Annoying, Useless Safety Tips | 11/2/1996 | See Source »

...recent past the Black Telegraph, augmented by black-radio talk shows, has been a font of bizarre fantasies. Among them: the claim that Church's fried chicken is laced with a chemical that sterilizes black men and that aids was produced by government scientists to exterminate blacks and gays. But because the allegations in "Dark Alliance" were published by a respected, white-owned newspaper, they have credibility that the other tales lacked. As Joe Madison, a Washington talk-radio host who has devoted his program to "Dark Alliance" for the past month, explains, "We've always speculated about this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIVIDING LINE: CRACK, CONTRAS AND CYBERSPACE | 9/30/1996 | See Source »

...will not need others to correct or complement him.... He will not hold opinions but know truth." Furthermore, since "most of us see truth and goodness too dimly to rely wisely on our own judgment...we must learn to see from those who saw clearly." And where is this font of knowledge? In "the exceedingly difficult works of Plato and Aristotle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Choi's Ideas on Education Are Pre-Industrial | 9/20/1996 | See Source »

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