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...give the money to a scholarship fund for black students to attend the University of Southern Mississippi. Inspired by her example, Hattiesburg business leaders have pitched in an additional $150,000. The first beneficiary of McCarty's largess has "adopted" her, and vows to help the heroine through her frail and lonely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GENEROUS OLD LADY, OR REVERSE RACIST? | 8/28/1995 | See Source »

...could write catchy songs with irony and sidewise angst--jingles for jangled nerves. Ripple, Sugar Magnolia, Uncle John's Band, lots of others offer sophisticated pleasures in a simple form. (Other pieces, played in eccentric signatures, are closer to cool jazz.) To the lyrics Garcia lent humanity with his frail tenor. "His voice was a picture of the American past," says singer-composer Elvis Costello. "You could call it sepia-tinted. It's like one of those great old Civil War pictures that is so sharp it shocks you how much detail it holds, yet at the same time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JERRY GARCIA: THE TRIP ENDS | 8/21/1995 | See Source »

...There aren't many films about Irish Americans, but that's not enough to recommend this frail fable of three Long Island siblings (writer-director-co-star Edward Burns, Jack Mulcahy, Mike McGlone) and their romantic angst," saysCorliss. "They talk, soulfully. They fret, winsomely. They annoy, a lot. The acting is mostly stodgy, especially by the family trio. Burns' dialogue reeks of the page; it's cluttered with more adjectives than a D+ student paper. And when the specter of clunky writing isn't hanging over the actors, the shadow of a boom mike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOVIES . . . BROTHERS MCMULLEN | 8/18/1995 | See Source »

...size risk (breast cancer, uterine cancer) compared with a watermelon-size benefit (less heart disease, less disabling osteoporosis). One should never take a medication that has theoretical benefit in the future if it decreases the quality of life in the present. But seeing a hunched-over, frail woman shuffling behind a walker has to stir the thought, What would her life be like had she been on estrogen the past 20-plus years? RICKI POLLYCOVE, M.D. San Francisco A MAJOR DISSERVICE HAS BEEN DONE TO the women of this country. The article on estrogen fed the cancer fear in women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 17, 1995 | 7/17/1995 | See Source »

...separation are open invitations to more litigation--and more struggles for that fifth vote. As chief guidance officer of the liberal wing, William Brennan had a famous dictum: "Five votes can do anything around here.'' Year after year, he bundled together 5-to-4 liberal majorities. In January a frail-looking Brennan sat on the sidelines to hear oral arguments in Adarand, this term's affirmative-action case. When a 5-to-4 ruling came down, another conservative victory, it was hard not to wonder whether his words had come back to haunt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SOUL OF A NEW MAJORITY | 7/10/1995 | See Source »

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