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...same sense of the South that we had. There was a pause, and then he offered a story he thought might help frame the answer. During a recent history class, another teacher was suddenly interrupted by a student, a white Southerner, who looked up with a puzzled frown and asked, "Tell me again, which side was Sherman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The End of the South | 8/6/1990 | See Source »

...used 225 words in answer to my short note. It is easy to see the same message could have been conveyed with six: 'We know, but we don't care.' " (Frown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From the Publisher: Apr 23 1990 | 4/23/1990 | See Source »

...Your letter is such a monument to obfuscation and sophistic logic, I feel compelled to pursue this issue." (Big frown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From the Publisher: Apr 23 1990 | 4/23/1990 | See Source »

...will look at me and frown. Like you, he probably won't understand a word I say. But I understand every single one. That's what memories are all about...

Author: By Theodore D. Chuang, | Title: Daddy? What Were Sports in The 80s Like? | 12/15/1989 | See Source »

Dolphins might have avoided all this attention if evolution had contrived to give them a permanent frown instead of a permanent smile, or if their foreheads, which bulge with echo-location organs, did not make them look so intelligent. But for whatever reason, people think of the animals as special, perhaps even more so than other intelligent creatures such as chimpanzees or elephants. Unfortunately, dolphins can be smothered by misdirected love as well as by tuna nets. Swimming with them may make their human fans feel good, but it would be better if the admiring masses appreciated their grace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nature: An Uneasy Dip with the Dolphins | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

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