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...extension of these thoughts is embodied in the societally-imposed division between how young men and women play with sticks and balls. Baseball for the boys, softball for the kinder, gentler girls...

Author: By Joe Mathews, | Title: Toward a More Perfect League | 1/12/1994 | See Source »

...destiny is far kinder in director Christopher Guest's post-feminist ; interpretation of this troubled suburban Mrs. The result is a movie that really means to be funny. The new Attack spoofs '90s notions of male insecurity and female empowerment. The plot follows the old line: Nancy (Daryl Hannah) is married to a bonehead (Daniel Baldwin), who prefers cavorting in motels with beauticians named Honey to sipping Chardonnay at home with his wife. For years he has chipped away at Nancy's self-esteem. She's 5 ft. 10 in., but inside she feels about the size of a Barbie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fifty-Foot Feminist | 12/13/1993 | See Source »

...Neil Simon returned to the stage with Laughter on the 23rd Floor, a nostalgic comedy based on his days as a writer for Sid Caesar. The other debut, Perestroika, is the second half of Tony Kushner's Pulitzer-prizewinning age-of-AIDS epic, Angels in America. Critics were far kinder to Kushner than to Simon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Week November 21-27 | 12/6/1993 | See Source »

...independent Chinese small-business owner, thus funding and nurturing the growth of the nascent middle class in post-Mao China, whose soon-to-be wealthy members, in turn, will spearhead the transformation of the corrupt, market-Leninist, cruel-repressive, authoritarian Chinese state into a free, liberal, shiny-happy, kinder-gentler, just, western-style democratic nation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Most Favored Nation. | 11/4/1993 | See Source »

University of Southern California professor Marsha Kinder, who is a member of several video-game review panels, believes that the games are different ( from other media because they actively engage children in violent acts: "It's worse than TV or a movie. It communicates the message that the only way to be empowered is through violence." Enthusiasts counter that the games serve as a harmless way to let off steam. As one video-store manager put it, "You had a bad day, so you can go in there and rip a couple of heads off and feel better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Too Violent for Kids? | 9/27/1993 | See Source »

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