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...toward the Pacific. When the U.S. moved westward, many of the first classic photos of the newfound landscape appeared as engravings in Harper's Weekly and other periodicals. What they were reporting back East was not just scenery but, once again, news -- of the young nation's vastness, its inhuman scale, its economic potential and hard physical challenges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Early Days 1839-1880 | 10/25/1989 | See Source »

...want people to know that homophobia isunacceptable and inhuman anywhere," Barrios said."We bisexual, gay and lesbian students of Harvardare asking to be treated as equals, as other humanbeings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BGLSA `Coming Out' Events Scheduled | 10/11/1989 | See Source »

...caught fire. There were maybe 100 to 200 men grouped in the back of the boat because the front < was in flames. But the wind kept whipping the fire back on them, and the men were crying. It was a kind of moan, but a collective moan, an inhuman moan. I tried to drag a man out of the water and up onto the beach, but there was an obstacle. It was half a human body. The head and shoulders were gone, the torso cut right away . . . Ah, it was awful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Remembrance . . . It Was Awful | 9/4/1989 | See Source »

...course, I understand the lure of final clubs, and I understand why many dozens of men will be joining these organizations this week. Harvard, as we all know, is a large and inhuman place in the guise of a small, private school, and therefore the alienation we all feel as students here is not only painful but confusing because it seems that we all ought to be on top of the world. But we're not. So we all do stupid things. Like join final clubs...

Author: By Elizabeth L. Wurtzel, | Title: Liquor, Cocaine, Pot, Ecstasy and Sexism | 11/22/1988 | See Source »

...approvingly with criminal solicitation, the film climaxes with a depiction of the assault: Sarah's volcanic flirtation and the dreadful price she pays for it. "The film doesn't show bullets," says Foster, "just basic human cruelty -- what happens when people are in a room together. It's not inhuman, which is why it's so scary." By then, the moviegoer -- a witness-voyeur, just like the bystanders -- is ready to have his prejudices twisted from compassion to horror. "We wanted to lull the audience and then turn things around," Topor explains. "We were saying, 'As a spectator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bad Women and Brutal Men | 11/21/1988 | See Source »

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