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Part of what makes any fiction fun is the inversion of expectations. Kramer, the ruling white, is the team's iconoclast, full of scorn for procedure and authority. He is expedient, intemperate, womanizing and often drunk. Zondi, the oppressed black who for reasons of race earns a modest fraction of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Apartheid, He Wrote | 8/5/1991 | See Source »

Fortunately, inversions generally dissipate after a few hours, and there is a break of at least a few more hours before another inversion occurs. As the air grows more polluted, however, environmentalists fear the creation of a lethal inversion that remains fixed for days -- like the one that killed 20...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mexico City's Menacing Air | 4/1/1991 | See Source »

A character in Dune says, "Let me teach you the weirding way." In 1986 Lynch took moviegoers the whole way with Blue Velvet (also, ironically, made for De Laurentiis). "I started with the idea of front yards at night," Lynch says, "and Bobby Vinton's song playing from a distance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: David Lynch: Czar of Bizarre | 10/1/1990 | See Source »

The central issue regarding the forum on Israeli-South African ties is not the question of academic freedom, however compelling those theoretical arguments may be. The critical problem is that academic and media equations of Israel and the apartheid regime of South Africa, have become not only acceptable, but even...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Delink Israel and South Africa | 11/16/1989 | See Source »

It is "neo" because it presents a family turned inside out by Calvin's imagination. The symbol of that inversion is Hobbes, a stuffed tiger who comes to life for Calvin. It is a device as old as "The Nutcracker," and it is a powerful way to blur the lines...

Author: By Bentley Boyd, | Title: Calvin and Hobbes:Leaping From the Cosmos to Suburbia | 3/20/1989 | See Source »

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