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...essay lays bare how Madonna's supposedly taboo-breaking movie pigeon-holed these groups into lifeless stereotypes. Shedding a harsh light on the pop goddess, hooks reveals how much of Madonna's act is the "same old nonsense" in a pointy...

Author: By David S. Kurnick, | Title: What's Relay Happening Now: Race and Pop Culture | 7/24/1992 | See Source »

...basic answer was easy: Murphy Brown does not exist. She is the TV character played by Candice Bergen. Murphy is a blond media anchor-goddess and wiseguy and now a defiantly unmarried madonna. In last week's episode she delivered a baby boy -- the boy being played by a seven-week-old girl named Danica Fascella. (A perfect Murphy Brown, post-Quayle touch: Danica and her twin Cynthia were conceived in vitro and carried to term by a surrogate mother.) In triumphant autonomy, Murphy will raise the child as a single parent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: But Seriously, Folks . . . | 6/1/1992 | See Source »

FOREST OF THE AMAZON, Municipal Theater, Rio, June 1-21 Set to music by Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos, Forest of the Amazon is the story of a white goddess who falls in love with a rubber tapper, angering both the Amazon tribe that adores her and the forest itself. The ballet, described by choreographer Dalal Achcar as "a poetic fantasy," is an expanded version of one she originally created for Margot Fonteyn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Summit to Save the Earth: Sideshows Galore | 6/1/1992 | See Source »

Quayle's jab at a TV goddess obscures a serious debate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page | 6/1/1992 | See Source »

...hilarious public Exploder Tarara (Leo Clark) and the meek Vice-Chamberlain (Mark Hagar) adding to the confusion, without Scaphio falling in love with the Princess Zara. In one of the play's most humorous moments, Scaphio talks insensibly about his love for Zara, whom he calls "intoxicating, a veritable goddess," prompting Phantis, who has loved the princess all along, to reply with characteristic understatement, "Yes, the girl is perfectly okay...

Author: By Ganesh Ramakrishnan, | Title: Utopia: It's the Closest You'll Ever Get at Harvard | 4/9/1992 | See Source »

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