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The roots of what is turning out to be an acrimonious dispute go back to the Red Cross Federation's exclusion of Israel's Red Shield of David society in 1949. The Geneva Convention mandates the red cross (originally an inversion of the Swiss flag), crescent and lion as the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Battle Looms over the Symbol for Neutrality | 10/23/2000 | See Source »

Ellis didn't lack for formal audacity. He Cuisinarted a bunch of cultural influences, with Dostoyevsky, the '80s preppie-murder case and the original Psycho (Norman Bates=Patrick Bateman) sliced and spliced into an inversion of The Bonfire of the Vanities. In Tom Wolfe's novel, Wall Streeter Sherman McCoy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Yuppie's Killer Instinct | 4/17/2000 | See Source »

There is a strange inversion which occurs whenthose who would see Hemingway's writing as mereform assume a total merging of form and meaning inthe bravado and masculine ritual thatcharacterized Hemingway's writing and his cult ofpersonality: it is imagined that what appearsadolescent and foolish is merely adolescent andfoolish, driven...

Author: By Joshua Perry, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Who's Afraid of Mr. Hemingway? | 4/16/1999 | See Source »

The move confused Hobart's defense and lead to a great deal of motion in the offensive sets. The inversion was one of the primary factors to the strong second period in which the Crimson out shot its opponent 12-5.

Author: By Peter D. Henninger, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Lacrosse Goes Eagle Hunting at Ohiri Today | 3/24/1999 | See Source »

As a novelist, Amis has demonstrated a facility for inversion (Time's Arrow runs history backward). Here the story Straight Fiction posits a society in which homosexuality is the social norm and heterosexuals are fearful of discovery. Career Move illustrates what might happen if poems rather than prose became movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bitter Sweets | 2/8/1999 | See Source »

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