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More exactly, they may have been too caught up in the uniquely double- jointed exercise of 1) worrying about the deterioration of American morals, and 2) savoring every lurid manifestation of the decadence. Americans, in other words, found themselves torn between enjoying filthy pleasures guaranteed by the First Amendment and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yin and Yang, Sleaze and Moralizing | 12/26/1994 | See Source »

"I didn't know too much about public service," Pan says. "I jointed the Mission Hill after school program to--this sounds cheesy--to make a difference. Whenever I got injured in rugby. I would find myself in Mission Hill....the things I like in rugby, like the camaraderie, were...

Author: By Lindsey M. Turrentine, | Title: Phillips Brooks House's New Leader Pan Is Man on a Mission | 12/9/1994 | See Source »

Half the truth about small towns, much sentimentalized now that three-level regional malls with indoor waterfalls have replaced the towns as economic centers, is that they were wonderful, warm places where even the local drunk was part of the patchwork and where attention was paid. That's the genial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Boarded-Up Glocca Morra | 5/31/1993 | See Source »

Yet, either because it's the '90s now and rearview time, or because the stuff is too good to ignore any longer, many Americans have been looking back in spite of themselves at the incredible trove of Broadway show tunes and pop melodies composed between roughly 1920 and 1950 and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: With A Song in His Heart: CY COLEMAN | 2/24/1992 | See Source »

The centerpiece of the Royal Ballet's current U.S. tour is a production of SWAN LAKE that in most respects is a genial mess. In the famous "white act," the enchanted maidens dance around in what appears to be silvery decor left over from their Christmas party, all tinsel and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance She Did It Her Way | 7/29/1991 | See Source »

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