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"There may be serious limitations on Iran?s electoral process, but within those limitations there?s a real struggle for power between groupings committed to dramatically different visions of Iranian society," says TIME correspondent William Dowell. "Second to Israel, Iran may still be the liveliest republican democracy in the Middle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Streets May Be Quiet, but Iran's Democracy Battle Continues | 7/23/1999 | See Source »

Movies work by making us think that they're real. Most movies accomplish this by imitating life, so we forget that what we're seeing is illusion. When they're frightening, it is comforting to remember that "it's only a movie." Someone is filming this in a studio somewhere...

Author: By Dan Luskin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Blair Witch Walks on the Real Side | 7/23/1999 | See Source »

It will be an all-time low in American culture if teenagers must show a photo ID to see an R-rated film [NATION, June 21]. Carding kids--or not allowing them to go into an R-rated movie without a parent--takes away the teens' illusion of control. Carding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 12, 1999 | 7/12/1999 | See Source »

At all costs Milosevic wants to maintain his fiction that Serbia won the war and Kosovo is not lost. To achieve this illusion, Milosevic has had to engineer one of the strangest U-turns in the history of propaganda. First, NATO was the enemy, the evil aggressor who bombed Serbia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside Milosevic's Propaganda Machine | 7/12/1999 | See Source »

Opal is a silicate fossil. It comes in "shells"--seashells originally, for this whole desert was once a vast inland sea--or more rarely in "pipes," or tubes, the fossilized backbones of archaic freshwater squid. The paradox of the stuff is that although it is so brilliantly colored, it has...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fella Down a Hole | 7/5/1999 | See Source »

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