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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard professor rarely join families torn by incest, wives who hate their mothers-in-law and women who love Michael Bolton on the Oprah Winfrey Show...

Author: By Stephanie P. Wexler, | Title: Med School's John Mack Believes in Wicked Aliens | 6/9/1994 | See Source »

...eating beans, her husband rejecting $2,000 offers to speak at universities because everything he had to say was available in those books that no one was buying. The repellent could have been subject matter, but then only a simpleton would think that Outer Dark (1968) was just about incest or Child of God (1974) just about necrophilia. More likely, the villain was the complexity of language and thought that refused to meet the reader halfway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Knock at the Door | 6/6/1994 | See Source »

...least 10 states, including the President's home state of Arkansas, announced that they would ignore a new federal Medicaid requirement to pay for the abortions of low-income women who suffer rape or incest. The state revolt sets the stage for months of negotiations with the Federal Government, and for lawsuits by abortion-rights advocates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Week March 27 -April 2 | 4/11/1994 | See Source »

Complete randomization would rob houses of any sort of individuality or character. Knee-jerk fans of diversity seem to forget that Adam's artsiness and Kirkland's Incest Fest bring individuality and richness into their inhabitants' lives. The alternative to house "character" is a system of 12 sterile dormitories, nothing more than place to live, rather than the vibrant communities they are intended...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bring Back Ordered Choice for Housing | 3/11/1994 | See Source »

...certainly is a lively venue for dealmaking. At least four films picked up distributors during this year's festival: Go Fish, a lesbian comedy (to be released by Goldwyn); Spanking the Monkey, a startling drama about incest that won the audience prize for best dramatic feature (Fine Line); Clerks, a low- budget comedy set in a convenience store (Miramax); and Martha and Ethel, a documentary about two lifelong nannies (Sony Pictures Classics). Several other movies are under negotiation with distributors, among them Hoop Dreams, a nearly three-hour documentary about two ghetto youths aiming for basketball success that was perhaps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Redford's Mountain | 2/14/1994 | See Source »

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