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...Grueling Tale of Frontier Horror...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Short Takes: Nov. 2, 1992 | 11/2/1992 | See Source »

...early American drama and frontier fiction, a mythical American spirit embodied by an Indian hero lives on through white people even though the hero dies. "American" culture is transferred to Europeans without the threat of intermarriage. In a retelling of this story--a Black replaces the Indian figure--Candyman accepts its own problematic version of Black culture as American, but this American spirit survives only in a middle-class white body...

Author: By Dan Sharfstein, | Title: Reviews | 10/22/1992 | See Source »

...human brain will be the inner frontier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page | 10/15/1992 | See Source »

...Year One of a better age, the decisive border at which the Future would start. Now that the destination of 2000 is approaching with a kind of dopplered urgency, people are bound to wonder what the future will look like after that. What will be the new frontier beyond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Cosmic Moment | 10/15/1992 | See Source »

Lincoln was largely self-taught in the area of books and literature. But in politics he underwent a long, hard schooling from his peers, and he graduated magna sine laude from that bruising course. Opponents would later exaggerate his crudity; but as a man on the frontier who neither drank whiskey nor smoked cigars, he used his disarming gifts as a storyteller in ways that later Americans have preferred not to remember. Today it might be called a character issue that Lincoln told racist and obscene stories to make a point among his none too delicate peers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dishonest Abe Lincoln | 10/5/1992 | See Source »

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