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...Variety, reviewing her film debut, called her "the Clara Bow of her race." When she toured Europe in the 30s she was billed as "the black Garbo." But based on her one starring role in a Hollywood film, McKinney was more the black Jean Harlow - pure impurity on screen. Even that's not quite fair to Nina (rhymes with Dinah), for Harlow's was essentially a comic persona, lacing fake baby talk into the braying of the gold digger who's already a little tired of the priapic effect she has on men. McKinney, though her signature character is frequently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Basic Black | 4/24/2002 | See Source »

...enhanced and abridged her showbiz career; but her exotic outsider status pursued her, defined her, wherever she went. Her husband, Lawrence Brown, was a trombonist with Duke Ellington, and in the 30s she would occasionally accompany the orchestra on dates in the American South. Josephine Baker's adopted son Jean-Claude has said that the black musicians "could not go into ice cream parlors, so she would go in and buy the ice cream, then go outside and give it to Ellington and the band. Whites screamed at her, "Nigger lover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Basic Black | 4/24/2002 | See Source »

Here's why far-right candidate Jean-Marie Le Pen will advance to the second round of the French presidential election: An unusually high number of voters stayed home, and a lot of dissention among the voters of the left. Nearly 30 percent of the electorate stayed away from Sunday's poll, and their abstention is believed to have hurt Socialist prime minister Lionel Jospin more than any of his rivals. A large stay-away also means that the results were skewed to the more ideologically motivated voters, who tend to favor more extreme parties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why France Lurched to the Right | 4/22/2002 | See Source »

...Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) laboratory, the existence of psychokinesis, the ability to move physical objects solely through psychic power—think X-Men’s Jean Grey—and telepathy, the ability to read minds—think Miss Cleo or Professor X—are being tested with intense scientific rigor. Through the work of PEAR, notions of “mind over matter” and psychic communication that were once solely the stuff of science fiction and 1-900 numbers increasingly appear to be grounded in reality...

Author: By Peter L. Hopkins, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Princeton Studies Mind Reading- Or Did You Already Know That? | 4/11/2002 | See Source »

...pulled together to survive a very trying half-decade JOHN NASH Beautiful Mind's house won't be condemned. And the imaginary bunker next to his "indoor basketball court" will still exist only in his head Losers BILL GATES Microsoftie April Fooled when two DJs convince him they're Jean Chr?tien. It's plausible the Canadian PM has nothing to do but crank call NE WIN Burmese ex-dictator's relatives charged with treason, and he's under Suu Kyi-style house arrest. The sound you hear is poetic justice APOLO ANTON OHNO U.S. skater voted "least welcome" by South...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Person of the Week | 4/8/2002 | See Source »

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